INDEX 



Creeping stems, 43 

 Creole yam, 285 

 Crops, 49, 50, 126, 138, 150, 

 156, 163, 171, 176, 185, 

 187, 189, 192, 195, 198, 

 202, 208, 236, 239, 242, 

 246, 264, 269, 270, 276, 

 280, 293 

 coffee, 106 

 fodder, 63 

 green, 53 

 maize, 6^ 

 rotation, 62 

 Cross, Mr.. 228 

 Cross fertilisation, 33, 35 



ploughing, 214 

 Crowding plants, 97 

 Crown grafting 84 

 Crude salt, 61' 

 Crystal sugar, 141 

 Cuba, 211, 216 

 Cuban banana, 160 

 Cultivation, 50, 125, 136, 148, 

 149, 155, 163, 169, 175, 180, 

 186, 192, 198, 201. 204, 215 

 225, 231, 239, 242,' 246, 252, 

 255, 263, 268, 270, 272, 275, 

 280, 287, 289, 292 

 Cultivators, 75. 76 

 Curcuma longa, 248 

 Curing cacao, 121 

 tobacco, 218 

 vanilla, 209 

 Cush-cush yam, 286 

 Cushions, 34 

 Cutlass, 73 

 Cutlassing, 116 

 Cuttings, 44, 195 



Damp Soil, 67 

 Darwin, Dr., 11 

 Date-palm, 32 

 Dates, 32 

 Dead leaves. 52 



plants, 24 

 Decayed weeds, 61 



Decomposition, 38 

 Deep tillage, 73 

 Defecated juice, 142 

 Destructive insects, 64 

 Dew, 23 

 Dhurra, 271 

 Digger, 73, 75 

 I^iggi.ng, 72 

 Dioecious plants, 32 

 Dioscorea aculeata, 286 

 alata, 285 

 triphyUa, 286 

 Disbudding tobacco, 216 

 Discoveries, scientific, 64 

 Dominica, 9, 10, 34, 47, 91, 92, 

 98, 105, 112, 1^3, 116, 121, 

 144, 147, 149, 151, 156. 

 157, 160, 174, 184, 185. 

 186, 187, 200, 206, 224, 

 254, 260, 256, 283 

 Dormant constituents, 62 

 Double silicates, 25 

 Drainage, 66, 162 



and fertility, 68 

 Drain outlets, 68 

 Drains, 68 

 open, 68 

 covered, 68 

 Dresden, 32 

 Dried cloves, 187 

 Driers, 128 

 Drugs, 221, 234, 240 

 Dry berry, 109 



weather, 99 

 Drying cloves, 187 

 jalap, 239 

 pimento, 1S9 

 Dubber, 233 

 Dung fork, 73, 75 



heap, 52 

 Dutch, 184, 190, 200 

 Dyes, 244, 248, 253 



Earth Chisel, 73, 75 



worms, II 

 East, 185 



