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The natural deductions from the above facts are that while it 
underneath it m p d, it gives but little shade unless 
pl hort tances. Until it has attained sufficient 
mensions to shade itself (for it will not grow well if the sun gets 
at its tru ants nea branches, it t 
eris by some other shade tree, its natural habitat, like that of 
e Jamaica pimento, being in old plantations among the under- 
tah that so rapidly springs up in humid soils. If planted 
sufficiently closely to shade its own stems, without which both 
the growth and flow of milk will be checked by the heat of the 
sun, it must of course ultimately damage the crop beneath it, and, 
in the case of cacao, when both crops come to maturity about the 
same time, both crops would be injured to an almost equal 
extent. 
If grown as a varier Sp ut seeds should be planted, I 
stanc 15 feet fr 
le ou 
the under-bush to shade them and stimulate their growth—a 
small area of about a foot in diameter being kept clear round each 
only when sufficiently large to shade one another to a 
geri extent should the plantation be thoroughly brushed with a 
machete. 
On the plantation of M. Lefebvre (No. 7, Rue des Petits Hótels, 
Paris), in the western district of British Honduras, several 
not make half oe progress 
Stakes, if set in the ae make more apparent progress than 
seeds (seedlings should not, I think, be planted, on account of the 
extreme length and delicacy of their tap roots), but two or three 
years suffice to show that the seeds make more certain and rapid 
progress. 
have reason to believe that the is tg — affects the 
neighbourhood of rivers chiefly, because the bush in such places 
is always stunted by the floods so as io ahes the rabba uid. to 
have full growth, and is T sufficient to give the groun 
stems full shade. Under these circumstances the trees will Sach 
a gre fe: ze, while in identical soil in the open savannah they 
make no apparent progress. 
ation.—A. great difficulty has hitherto been found in 
nur the milk from the tree in a satisfactory manner. The 
method now employed is wasteful both of time and of the 
quantity and quality of the milk extracted. I append a rough 
sketch of a machine* invented by Mr. Blancaneaux, of the Cayo, 
British Honduras, which avoids all these disadvantages. 
oagulation.—The methods which at present prevail = 
eet E the milk are well described by Mr. Morris. I cannot 
* Not reproduced. 
