Index 



633 



Palms benefited by iron, 439 ; fall 

 when bush weeded out, 469 ; 

 how to manure them, 310 ; killed 

 when catching Oryctes, 126; need 

 sun and wind, 470 ; respond to 

 good treatment, 442 ; their flore- 

 scence and fructification, 590 



Palm sugar, how to make, 546 ; v. 

 cane sugar, 546, 547 ; weevil, 

 266 ; wine-tapping in, G.E. 

 Africa, 145 



Panama, age of production, 112; 

 and catch-crops, 115; and cattle, 

 92, 117; coco-nuts in, 106 ; and 

 rainfall, 107 ; and winds, 106 ; 

 an old producing industry, 114 ; 

 Canal, the, 20 ; compared to 

 other centre?, 106 ; out of hurri- 

 cane belt, 106 ; pigs and poonac, 

 117 ; Railway Co. buying catch- 

 crops, 116; the Atlantic coast 

 nuts, 109 ; the Pacific coast 

 nuts, 109 ; the question of yields, 



112 



Pandanus palm, 161 

 Pangani River (G.E. A.), 143 

 Paper from coco-nut, manila and 

 sisal fibre, bamboo and megass, 



433 



Paper-making from coco-nut husks, 

 558 ; from by-products, 433 ; 

 pulp from waste wood, 524 



Papua, age at which palms yield, 

 79; analysis of its soil, 78, 79; 

 and catch-crops, 80 ; and coco- 

 nuts, 75 ; and its labour, 75 ; and 

 its output, 141 ; and stumping, 

 81 ; and traction ploughing, 81 ; 

 (British) has 35,000,000 trees, 

 77 ; cost of labour, 76 ; cost of 

 planting up, 79 ; exports of 

 copra, 77 '> good for cacao, 

 tobacco, &c., 75 ; how to make 

 nurseries, 461 ; immigration re- 

 striction in, 75 ; native population, 

 75 ; soil and rainfall, 76 ; through 

 Ceylon's eyes, 81 ; where its 

 coco-nut lands lie, 78 ; yield of 

 nuts and copra, 80 



Papuan labour v. other S. Sea 

 Islanders, 76 ; nuts compared to 

 others, 76 

 Para grass, cattle, &c., in Panama, 



117 ; in Mexico, 155 

 Paralecanium cocophyllce, a scale 



insect, 276 



Paris green for beetles, 271 

 Parlatoriagieeni, a scale insect, 275 

 Paspalum as a fodder in Fiji, 471 

 Passiflora fcelida v. lalang, 130 

 Passiflnra under coco-nuts, 301 

 Patchouli, 128 



Paw-paws and coco-nuts, 115 

 Peanuts ; see Ground nuts 

 Penang and seed-nuts, 184, 285 

 Pepesala estate (Solomons),, 492 

 Pepper, 335 ; as catch-crops, 81 ; 



in the German colonies, 10 

 Perak (F.M.S.), area under coco- 

 nuts, 47 ; export of copra. 47 ; 

 and seed-nuts, 285 

 Peruvian guanos ; see Guanos 



(Peruvian) 



Pestalozzia palmarum and pos- 

 sible cures, 587 ; cause of bud- 

 rot, 225 ; cause of leaf disease, 

 247, 277 ; encouraged by un- 

 suitable soils and conditions, 

 588; (leaf disease) Fetch suggests 

 potash manure, 587 ; Petch on, 

 278 



Pests and diseases in Samoa, 444, 

 et seq. ; and enemies, 216; and 

 jungle growth, 162 ; cost of ex- 

 termination considered, 414 ; in 

 the soils killed by explosives, 

 510; might be checked by ex- 

 plosives, 515 ; other, 265 ; lOper 

 cent, to 15 per cent, of labourers 

 needed to check, 497 ; the best 

 remedy for, 276 ; the need of 

 co-operation, 222 



Petch and "little leaf," 258; on 

 basidiomycetous fungus and root 

 disease, 258 ; on diseased leaves, 

 278 : on root disease, 257 ; on 

 stem-disease, 242 

 Phaseolus lunatus, 66 ; wnngo, 66 



