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Jenman, has not yet been determined, though it has uius — „eoor 
in the fields, and samples of the affected parts have be ined 
by mycologists. Very wet weather materially i itane rite aes Mese. on 
heavy new land, and good drainage and high planting can ted 
to as a protection from its ravages. It is said that — —T in 
British Guiana are affected by the same disease as the planta 
An obscure disease of cocoa-nut trees at Montego Bay, Fits aica, may 
be related to it. Mr. Fawcett, describing the Jamaica trees, states, “ in 
almost all the trees examined the sour smell of a putrefactive fermentation 
of opinion that the diseas e to an 
organised ferment which is able to attack the very tender visse of the 
oun n outside the terminal bud. If this ferment can be 
the heart of the cabbage the tree ma be saved." The only remedy at 
all effective was “ burning the leav n the trees in the early peeps of 
the disease.” It was recomm Baidoa ics destroy all diseased trees, and 
for those under treatment it was suggested toa Apply to their roots the 
ashes of the burnt leaves mixed with some manure 
The bananas in British Guiana are i onini) not affected in the 
same way as the plantains. Some plants here and there growing near 
diseased plantains are affected, but the aida as a rule are free from 
disease. 
As far as can be gathered the plantain "rema is more pronounced on 
the “ newly empoldered clay lands of the Colony.” This land, with stiff, 
tenacious soil, is strongly impregnated with salt, and it will not grow sugar 
canes. It is possible such conditions may serve to render the plantains 
n: to the disease if not directly the cause of it. It has been 
n that plants affected by the disease grown experimentally in the 
Jota Gardens at Georgetown, in comparatively poorer but drier and 
more eultivated soil, have “lost the affection from the first, and bore 
* without exception sound fruit." 
Trinidad.—'The following information by Mr. J. H. Hart, F.L.S., 
this subject is taken from the B» lletin of the Royal Botanic kA m 
Trinidad, No. 21, January 1894 
“ For some two or three years past a disease has appeared among the 
various kinds of Musas cultivated in Trinidad. is characterised 1 by a 
diseased condition of the leaves, and by the fruit rotting before coming 
to maturit 
“The kinds most affected are those known as the ‘ Moko,’ or * Jobi 
plantain; and the ‘ Jamaica banana, otherwise known in Trinidad as 
the * Gros Michel, which is the kind most generally exported to the 
United States 
D d have several times | examined diseased plants at various seasons 
_ When first affected the "it 
oid organisms, and n matoid worms are present in large numbers, 
while a variety of forms of bacteria are present in the fluids of both 
stem and leat, 
* These organisms also appear in the soil surrounding the dre and 
also in the fruit when it decays. I have, however, been unable to show 
that the plant is attacked by parasitic fungi of any kind. 
