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Experiment Station, Porto Rico. 



Bulletin for 1908. 



Manuring with Lime and Magnesia. 



Soil Disinfection in Agriculture. 



Yarious. 



Natal Agricultural Journal. 



List of Plants and Ferns, Albany and Bathurst, by Rev. F. 

 A. Rogers. 



Third Annual Report, South African Central Locust 

 Bureau. 



Agricultural Bulletin, Jamaica. 



Bulletin, New York Botanic Garden, Vol. VII., Nos. 23, 24, 



Der Konigliche Botanische Garten und das Museum zu 

 Dahlem. 



Midland Naturalist, December 1909. 



Transactions, Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Vol. 

 XXIV., P. 1. 



Annals of Natal Government Museum, Vol. II., P. 1. 



Long Island Agronomist, April-May 1910. 



Report, Louisiana State Museum 1910. 



Pharmaceutical Journal, current numbers. 



Gleanings in Bee-keeping, current numbers. 



Notes from the Royal Gardens, Edinburgh, Nos. XX., XXI. 



Bulletin of Agricultural Station, Nebraska. 



Directions for control of Nebraska Plant Diseases, by 

 E.M.Wilcox. 



Purchased. 



Gardeners' Chronicle. 

 Journal of Botany. 

 Tropical Agriculturist. 



" Vegetable Ivory." 



Enquiries have frequently been made about the " Ivory 

 Palm," the fruit of which are said to be in demand in 

 Europe,and my correspondents were under the impression 

 that this plant was a native of Natal, therefore, some 

 particulars of it will not be without interest. The plant 

 yielding these fruits is Phytelephas macrocarpa, a native of 

 Ecuador and New Granada; it is a low growing almost stemless 

 plant bearing large fruits, the albumen of which is at first soft 

 and edible, afterwards hardening to an ivory-like consistency ; 

 large numbers of these nuts are imported into Europe, and 

 used as a substitute for ivory. So far as I am aware not a 

 single specimen of this plant is in cultivation in the colony, or 

 in South Africa. In Natal we have three or four species of 

 Palms, of which two only are common, the other one or two 

 being found in Zululand only, and these may for the present 



