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4 or 5in height. In common with the other trees of the avenue, 
the fruit is of the best description, and each tree may be taken to 
em annually 50 kilos, or say 120 lbs. of fruit, worth here about 
shillings. This may be spoken of as the omamental part of is 
ees while the plantations of Licosa and Tresina are more 
the scale of a commercial enterprise. They are both germane P 
our present purpose, as they show in what different circumstances 
there is scope for observat i h is very much expo to 
the wind, and in the first attempts at forming the grove as many 
as 70 cent of the gero were lost here were other 
and in what way it was best to graft the trees, and also the 
grafters had not anything like the skill which they have since 
acquired. 
The grove at Tresina is planted in altogether different con- 
ditions. Here we have a hilly country fully 1, feet above 
the sea, and here the outside loss of plants has been 20 per cent., 
which is not more than occurs in the pla ot of ordinary forest 
trees. The plantation consisted originally of 7,000 trees, but has 
been largely increased year by year, and the Prince expresses 
Savastano asks very pertinently why, if these results can be 
obtained at "Tresi na, they should not be Wiese elsewhere, and 
thousands of barren acres of Italian mountains be made useful 
and productive. And, in fact, since he ique wa the matter, 
the spread of this eui vatidit has been steady and continuous. 
e have shown pretty pla inly: that Prince Belmonte has attained 
success only by venta i Snare extending over a considerable 
number o 
yea Commercially speaking he is abundantly 
satisfied with the results obtiined but he does not relax his 
rs e 8,000 eedling every year, and has a 
duction should form a mine of wealth to our industrious colonists. 
ere is one important advantage that the carob has over other 
beans, namely, that it does not require threshing. In feeding 
horses it is usual to break the pod into two or three pieces and to 
put it in the nosebag or manger mixed with bra 
E. NEVILLE-ROLFF, 
