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INDEX 



Description of plant, 1-15 

 Development of trade in England, 160 



Europe, 164 



Hamburg, 164 



Difference between banana and plan- 

 tain, 1, 3 

 Digestibility of the banana, 111, 112, 



116 



Digging holes for planting, 24 

 Distance in planting, 23 

 Dominica, Bananas in, 251 

 Drainage, 27 

 Dry farming, 30, 32 

 Dryers, Artificial, 138 

 Drying bananas for flour and figs, 137 

 by air in India, 182 

 in sun, 137, 227, 228 



closets or rooms, 138 

 Duck plantain, 265 

 Dye from banana, 182 



EEL plantain, 202 

 Egypt, Bananas in, 209 

 Elders and Fyffes, 155, 160, 161 

 Elephants' Hands plantain, 203 

 Elephant's Head banana, 266 

 Emigrants, Advice to, 54 

 Enset-e banana, 273 

 Enzymes of banana fruit, 111 

 Estimate for cultivation, 51-53, 199 

 Exhausted banana lands, 70-79 

 soil, Fertilizers for, 70, 79 

 Experiments with manures, 65 

 Exports a variable amount, 158 



FARMYARD manure, 66, 226, 250 

 Ferments of banana fruit, 111 

 Fertilizers, 69, 226 



amounts, 70, 81, 226 

 cost, 70, 71, 82 



Fetish, Wild banana as, 277, 278 

 Fibre from various species, 148, 182, 



202, 267-269, 271, 275, 276, 279 

 Fibres from bananas and plantains, 



149-154 



Figs, Banana, 113 

 Fiji, Bananas in, 196 

 Fertilizers in, 69 

 Fungus diseases in, 97 

 Insect pests in, 99, 102 

 Financial considerations in planting, 



51 

 Flour, Banana, 110, 113-118, 125, 251 



Analysis of, 110, 116 

 Plantain, 229 

 Flower-formation, Commencement of, 



11 

 Flowers, 8, 10, 14, 15 



Flowers, Embryonic. 10 



Follower, 40 



Food, Bananas as, 107 



produced per acre, 6 

 French Guiana, Bananas in, 212 

 Fruit, 12 (fig.), 15 

 Fungus diseases, 83 



Australia, 95-98 



Canary Islands, 98 



Costa Rica, 83 



Cuba, 85 



Fiji, 97 



India, 92 



Jamaica, 93 



Panama, 83 



Surinam, 87, 231 



Trinidad, 85, 248 



GERMAN EAST AFRICA, Bananas in, 216 

 Gros Michel, 2, 16, 193, 197, 198, 201, 



202, 231, 248 



Guadeloupe, Bananas in, 251 

 Guatemala, Bananas in, 240 



Banana whisky from, 131 

 Guiana, Bananas in, 225 



HAMMA banana, 216 



Hands of banana bunch, 10, 11 



Harvesting, 44 



Heliconia, 14, 261, 262 



Hen's Egg banana, 202 



Hispaniola, Bananas in, 250 



Honduras, Bananas in, 241 



Horticultural notes, 256-261 



Humus, 66, 79 



Hutchison, Dr. R, 107, 115, 121 



INDIA, Bananas in, 177 



Fungus disease in, 92 

 Infant feeding, Bananas for, 116 

 Inflorescence, 8, 10, 13 

 Insect pests, 99 



Invalids' food, Banana flour for, 118 

 Irrigation, 22, 27 



JAMAICA. Bananas in, 251-255 



Experiments with manures in, 82 

 Fungus disease in, 93 

 Grasshopper pests in, 106 



Jamaican banana, 16, 193, 197, 198, 

 201, 202, 231, 248 



Japan, Bananas in, 202 



Johnston, Sir H., 203 



KUALA LUMPUR, Bananas in, 186 

 Kuyper, Dr. J., 231 



LABAT, Pere, 112-114 

 Lady's Finger, 3 



