ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BDULLITIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
Nos. 145-146.] JANUARY and FEBRUARY. (1899. 
DCXXXV.—CACAO DISEASE IN TRINIDAD. 
(With Plate.) 
The cultivation of cacao is an important industry in many 
British colonies. This is especially the case in Trinidad, where 
the crop has recently suffered (as is sooner or later the fate of all 
cultural industries) from disease 
The facts are detailed in the ‘following correspondence. The 
preliminary steps in their investigation reflect great credit on the 
Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens. m complete 
discussion required the technical assistance of Kev 
* 
GOVERNOR OF TRINIDAD TO ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Government House, Trinidad, 
SIR, December 20, 1898. 
THE ibi degen o E the Trinidad. Botanie Gardens will 
forward to your department by the present mail specimens of 
cacao pods attacked by a fungus which is reported to be doing 
serious damage to the cacao in certain districts of this — and 
which, unless checked, may, it is feared, prove disastrous to that 
industry. 
It is hardly necessary for me to assure you that this Government 
will be very thankful for such early assistance and advice in the 
matter as it may be in Mp o to afford 
etc., 
ER oe E.H. JERNINGHAM,. 
K Governor. 
* Sir W. T ‚ Thiselton-Dye u 
2 Royal Gardens, Kew. — 
3242—1375—7)99 Wt92 D&S en 
