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GENERAL NOTES. 1 



PESTALOZZIA AND POSSIBLE CURES. 



A READER of the first edition wrote asking 

 whether any remedy had proved successful 

 in combating the disease Pestalozzia palma- 

 rum, discussed on pp. 277-278. To this 

 we replied that well- fed trees on carefully 

 cultivated lands should be able, as a rule, 

 to throw the disease off should it attack 

 them, but if badly attacked it is best to 

 dig the trees up and burn them, as the 

 trouble is one that tends to spread As a 

 remedy when the trees are to be treated 

 and not destroyed, Mr. Petch suggests the 

 application of potash manure, and we would 

 suggest in the face of this that kainit be 

 chosen, since it has always been claimed that 

 this is specially suited for coco-nuts and is 

 comparatively cheap. Against this, however, 

 a leading authority on potassic manures in the 

 West Indies, writing to us about kainit versus 

 muriate of potash, tells us : "I always recom- 

 mend the latter out here in the West Indies 

 for manuring, because of the great difference 

 in price of K 2 O. In muriate it amounts to 



1 We include these remarks as promised on p. 238. 



