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‘The Consul adds Hie In giving the foregoing tables dem the 
various products of the State of Florida it will be u at I 
have very much in view that this information will be ym ie i our 
people in the British possessions where the climates are like the climate 
of Florida. It will be seen by the tables how many things are grown 
not by any o such ex 
and on such business principles as carried out in Florida, and which 
mode of cultivation can alone lead to such money results as are obtained 
in Florida in such a ere e pursuits.” 
In a further Foreign Office Report (Annual Series, 1895, No, sed 
the following further particulars are given respecting the disaster that 
has overtaken the orange industry in Florida :— 
“On December 28, 1894, the outlook in Florida was very bright. 
The orange groves had fruited more generously than usual. Alrea 
the growers had marketed about 3,000,000 boxes of oranges ad re- 
munerative prices. There were still 2,500,000 boxe 
oranges. ‘But when the morning of December 29 dawned all this 
had been swept away ; for the mercury had fallen to freezing point, 
and the oranges were found frozen har n a few hours fruit worth 
several millions of dollars had been turned to ice 
“Developments during January, however, seem to confirm the 
assertion of orange-growers that the Devoir. frost had not materially 
injured the old trees. The weather that followed the Christmas 
blizzard was wes ees favourable, and soon it was reported that 
trees were*shedding the leaves that had been blighted, and were putting 
forth new t€ 
* On February 7 everything seemed to point to a good crop; but this 
cheerful prospeet was destined to be succeeded by a condition E hopeless 
pie mer for the mercury, as was mentioned elsewhere in this report, fell 
o 20 degrees below freezing point. The opinion prevailing is that the 
e frost was fatal to the trees, and that it will be years before they can 
'e 
No full crop can be expected before 1897. Many of the trees 
have been split to the grou veral weeks have elapsed since the 
cold wave—week ost favourable weather—and no signs of li 
have been shown by the great majority of the groves. To judge by their 
appearance, the trees are only fit for firewood.” 
ian Zalil--In the Kew Bulletin, 1889, p. 111, a description was 
the Botanical Magazine, t. 7049, of the 
iva L wi h a plate m l 
Persian dye-plant Zalil. The plant was firs st t described in the Trans- 
exportation for dyeing silk. The following note 
the Journal o of t the Society of ri Industry, vol. xiv., 31st May 
ae gets it appears as a contr ibution from the Clothworker's 
Rese Laboratory in the Dyeing Department of € ics 
College, Leeds, by canal J. J. Hummel and A. G. Per 
Delphinium Zalil.— is a perennial herbaceous plant vue to 
the Ranunculacee, which bears a spike of yellow flowers 2 feet in 
