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ANALYSIS OF COCONUT. 
“The New York Botanical. Garden is doing a great deal of 
useful research work in the well-equipped laboratories. Messrs. 
E.K i 
inorganic; 43.4 per cent. is fat and 21.9 per cent. ‘crude fiber. 
fresh endosperm contains 0.75 per cent. of nitrogen, which 
is equivalent to about 4.7 per cent. of ‘albuminoid.’ It is prob- 
able, however, that much of the nitrogen found exists in the 
form of ‘extractives.’ General analysis of the milk gave the 
following average data: Water, 95.3 per cent. ; solids, 4.7 per 
cent.. Of the latter 88.5 per cent. is organic; I1 er cent. in- 
organic. Three dozen determinations of gross delationshins gave 
the following average weights and percentages : 
— of Aaa nut, 610 gram: 
Integu 170 grams, 27.9 per cent. 
aes. 333 grams, 54.5 per cent. 
Milk, 107 grams, 17.6 per cent. 
The volume of the milk averaged 105 cc.”—Bulletin of the 
oe Paes of Jamaica for March, rgot. 
PROGRAMME FOR THE ANNUAL MEETING OF 
THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF 
NEW YORK 
New York BoranicaL GarDEN, WEDNESDAY, May 8, 1901. 
Members and their friends leaving Grand Central Station, 
Harlem Division, by the 1.35 P. M.train for Bronx Park Stat 
will be met at Bronx Park Station by Dr. N. L. Britton, Birccior r- 
in-chief of the Garden and escorted to the conservatories. 
