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THE CUBA REVIEW 



A coffee plant pest. Coffee leaf showing depredation of coffee leaf miner, common in Cuba, annually causing 

 a crop loss of 10 per cent. 



Its extermination can be accomplished by spraying an emulsion of one part kerosene, one part whale oil soap 

 and eight parts of water. Thoroughly wet the lower surface of the leaves twice a week during the last sis or eight 

 weeks of the rainy season. This treatment will destroy the pupae and the plants will be comparativelyjhealthy 

 the following year. 



ORIENTES MOUNTAINOUS COASTJ 



To the traveler who ha.s read much and 

 seen nothing of the Pearl of the Antilles, 

 the first sight of Cuba is disappointing. 

 One may look in vain for the tropical verdure, 

 the Royal palms and gorgeous beauty 

 associated with this imagined isle. What 

 one really sees is a ragged, mountainous coast, 

 denuded of verdure, and apparently un- 

 watered and uninhabited. For a hundred 

 miles we skirted this coast, and, with but 

 one exception, we failed to find a human 

 habitation, although twenty pairs of glasses 

 searched among the recesses and along the 

 coastline. The mountain ranges as we 

 neared Santiago reached higher and higher 

 until in places the clouds hung about the 

 higher peaks, but always towards us, they 

 presented the same seamy, ragged, and age- 

 marked exterior. In places the iron ore 

 showed in broken crevices and landslides, 

 red and rusty, like the sides of an old wTeck. 



Leaving Guantanamo, we steamed on 

 towards Santiago, passing more mountains, 

 ragged and emaciated, suggesting some 

 weary old hack horse with protruding ribs 

 and razor back. About sundown we were 

 off Santiago with its frowning Morro Castle. 



As we passed Morro, the Cuban army 

 came out and lazily watched the ship go by. 

 We counted carefuUy, and all agreed upon 



theTcount. The army mustered four able- 

 bodied men, not one of them under five feet 

 in their eight stockings, provided they had 

 stockings. 



Morro Castle was the most romantic and 

 picturesque relic which fell under mj- obser- 

 vation. Commanding the entrance to the 

 inner harbor, it looked menacing, indeed. 

 Crowning the top of a rock with turret and 

 battlement built in medieval style, old 

 Morro was both picturesque and formidable. 

 On the lower levels battlements and towers 

 of solid masonry with their sentry bo.xes at 

 each angle, the turrets overhead and the very 

 businesslike embrasiu'es where once brass 

 cannon bade the pirates of the Spanish main 

 to "keep off the grass," all were there like 

 some dream of the past, or a leaf of romance 

 taken from the Waverly novels. — Correspond- 

 ence, Owego (N. Y.) Times. 



ORIGINAL SITE OF HAVANA 



Chorrera, on the Gulf at the mouth of the 

 Almendares River, near Havana, is inter- 

 esting for the relic of the old Torreon de la 

 Chorrera, a fort built in 1646 for protection 

 against the pirates; it is often called the 

 Buccaneers' Fort. It was one of the defenses 

 taken by the British in the siege of Havana 

 in 1762. 



