ILLUSTRATIONS 



Fid. pAUB 



Harvesting Bananas in Jamaica Frontispiece 



1. The Roots of a Jamaica Banana Plant To face 4 



2. A Banana Plant with the top cut off 6 



3. A Banana Plant (from " Natural History of Barbados "} 9 



4. Banana in Fruit 12 



5. A Flowering-stalk 13 



6. A Furrow Disc Plough used in Jamaica 21 



7. Cutting down Bananas To face 44 



8. 46 



9. A Banana Plant (from Pere Labat's work) 114 



10. Plan and Elevation of Drying House with Shelving for use 



with Blackmail's Fans and Hot Air 140 



11. A Rough Sketch of the Wolff Dryer, showing Empty Trucks 



waiting to be used 143 



12. A Vacuum Dryer To face 146 



13. S.S. Barranca 168 



14. A Special Railway Truck for Bananas To face 174 



15. Unloading Bananas at Garston Dockb, Liverpool 176 



16. Mvm Ensete 205 



17. Musa sapientum var. vittala, 215 



