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my obligations to the information contained in them, and 

 I wish specially to mention in this connexion those most 

 interesting and useful periodicals, the Agricultural News 

 of the Imperial Department of the West Indies, and the 

 Journal of the Agricultural Society, Jamaica. 



After the following pages had been printed, an important 

 paper by A. d'Angremond was brought to my notice, 

 entitled Parthenocarpie und Samenbildung bei Bananen, 

 which appeared in Behrichte der Deutschen Botanischen 

 Gesellschaft, xxx. 10, p. 686 (January 1913). The experi- 

 ments made by him in Surinam confirm the results 

 obtained by myself in Jamaica, that the Gros Michel or 

 Jamaican banana can be made to produce seed in this 

 case by dusting the female flowers of the Gros Michel 

 (and also the Apple banana) with pollen from Musa basjoo 

 and M. ornata chittagong. Papers have also appeared in 

 the Bulletin of the Department of Agriculture, Jamaica, 

 N. S. II., 6 (January 1913), on Banana Diseases in Jamaica, 

 by S. F. Ashby, and a translation by Mr. Ashby of " The 

 Surinam Panama Disease of the Gros Michel Banana," by 

 A. W. Drost, Assistant, Department Agriculture, Surinam. 

 These papers deserve careful attention, and I regret that 

 I had not an earlier opportunity of reading them. 



WILLIAM FAWCETT 



GOTO BEE 1913 



