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BANANA FIGS EXPORTED 



Jan. 1 to Dec. 31, 1911 Jan. 1 to Sept. 81, 1912 



Pkgs. s. d. Pkgs. s. d. 



United Kingdom 330 444 5 6 10 500 



51 28 9 



2 80 1 76 



1055 729 6 9 3293 2661 13 



_ 10 18 



27 31 5 408 316 3 3 



40 20 66 55 



U.S.A. 

 Canada . 

 Germany 

 France . 

 Holland . 

 Belgium . 



PRESERVES NON- ENUMERATED 



Pkgs. s. d. Pkgs. s. d. 



United Kingdom . . 387 400 16 6 115 178 16 



U.S.A 41 109 4 5 15 27 15 5 



Canada .... 28 44 4 7 910 



Germany . . . 1463 1292 15 10 629 624 18 6 



Varieties and Species under Cultivation. The following 

 is an alphabetical list of bananas that were growing in 

 Hope Gardens in the year 1908: Almeido pisang, apple, 

 champa, Chinese or Canary, cinerea (Saharanpur), discolor, 

 guindy (Ootocamund), Jamaican, kudjo hudang pisang 

 (Java), lady's finger, ditto from Panshanger, maas pisang 

 (Java), martabanica, oleracea, palembang pisang, radji 

 pisang, raja si em, ram kela (red or rubra), sereh pisang, 

 susu pisang (Java), vittata, unnamed variety from the 

 Congo from Mr. Patin, with dark red leaves. 



BERMUDA. The Superintendent of the Public Garden 

 wrote in his Report for 1905 as follows : " The Canary 

 Islands banana thrives exceedingly in Bermuda, probably 

 better than in any other part of the world, including that 

 part of China which is its native habitat. Its doing so 

 well here is another instance of the peculiar effect of our 

 unique climate upon certain plants. There are in Bermuda 

 probably not more than thirty acres under bananas, 

 planted and cultivated in a style that did very well when 

 there was plenty of land and some to waste, but which 

 would have to be replaced by more up-to-date methods if 

 the banana became an article of export. Planted ten feet 

 by eight feet apart and given even less care than is bestowed 

 upon potatoes, an acre of bananas could be made to yield 

 in Bermuda quite 2,000 bunches per annum." 



