INDEX 



ABACA, 267 



Abyssinian banana, 13, 204, 205 (fig.) 

 Africa, Bananas and plantains in, 203 

 Africa, West, Insect pests in, 101 

 Alcohol from bananas, 127, 129, 132- 



137 



Denatured, 133-137 

 Algeria, Bananas in, 216 

 American evaporators, 144 

 Analyses of banana, 119-122, 130 

 flour, 110, 116 

 fruits, 75 

 plants, 74 

 soils, 58, 59 



Apple banana, 225, 226 

 Argentina, Bananas in, 224 

 Atlantic Fruit Company, 157, 158 

 Australia, Bananas in, 192 



Fungus diseases in, 95-98, 105 

 Insect pests in, 101, 103-105 

 Azores, Bananas in, 209 



BANANA as catch- crop, 48, 199 



as food, 6, 107 



figs, 113, 253-255 



flour or meal, 110, 113-118, 125, 

 251 



soils, 56 



trade, Development of, 155 

 Bananine, 117 

 Baraton, 45, 46 

 Barbados, Bananas in, 244 

 Bengal, Bananas in, 178 

 Bermuda, Bananas in, 255 

 Blackman's fans, 139 

 Bluefields banana, 202 

 Bombay, Bananas in, 179 

 Bracts of banana flowers, 10-12 

 Brazil, Bananas in, 218 

 Brazilian banana, 202 

 Brewing, Bananas in, ] 32 

 British Honduras, Bananas and 



plantains in, 241 

 Bulb of banana, 3, 5, 6 

 Burbidge, 186 

 Burton, 203 



CACAO, bananas as catch-crop, 49 

 Calcutta, Bananas in, 179 

 Cameroon, Bananas in, 214 

 Canary Islands, Bananas in, 204 



Fungus disease in, 98 

 Catch-crop, Bananas as, 48, 199 

 Catura banana, 218 

 Central America, Bananas in, 237-243 

 Ceylon, Bananas in, 182 

 Chile, Bananas in, 224 

 Chinese or Canary Islands banana, 1, 2, 

 179, 197, 198, 212, 213, 218, 

 248, 255, 256-259, 265 



first known in cultivation, 196 

 Claret banana, 2, 17 

 Clearing land, 22 

 Cocoa and coffee dryers, 144 

 Coco-nuts, bananas as catch-crop, 49 

 Coffee, bananas as catch-crop, 50 

 Colombia, Bananas in, 235 

 Composition of bananas, 118 

 Congo banana, 89, 232 



Bananas in, 214 

 Gonquintay, 229 

 Consumption of bananas in Germany, 



Great Britain, 122, 123 



U.S.A., 122, 123 

 Cooking bananas, 112, 280 

 Corenwinder, 129 

 Cost of cultivation, 51-53 

 Costa Rica, Bananas in, 237 



Fungus disease in, 83 

 Crates, Packing in, 208 

 Crichton- Browne, Sir J., 107, 108 

 Cuba, Bananas in, 250 



Fungus disease in, 85 

 Cultivation after planting, 29 



general, 20 



horticultural, 256 



in Tropics, 177-255 



DAMPIEB, 108, 129 



Darwin, 17 



De Candolle, 177 



Derivation of word Masa, 177 



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