majority oi in- iiv,'- mu.-t have reached maturity without being immedi- 

 ately attacked. 



If the development of weevils has been tbu . nco ;: aged, il will be 

 difficult to check it by the destruction of the felled cohoon palms. Wild 

 palms are so abundant that ilic removal of them, living and dead, is 

 impiactieable, and the interest of the banana planter on the cohoon 

 ridge do not necessarily coincide with those of the cocoa-nut plantei, 

 so that he cannot be expected to go to the expense of destroying felled 

 palms which do him no barm. The cohoon palm is a soft pithy tree 

 that will not readily burn, even if that be the proper method of prevent- 

 ing beetles breeding in it. The destruction of felled palms will be 



It is doubtful whether cocoa-nut plantations should be established at 

 all in the immediate proximity of the cohoon ridges, and it is important 

 that the amount of injury sustained by cocals at different distances from 

 them shall be carefullv compared, as ibis question must arise in the estab- 

 lishment <»f further plantations. 



Mr. D. Morris, F.L.S., of Kew, made, when Director of the Botanic 



on this point which it is desirable to quote in full (20) ; — 



" It has been remarked as somewhat strange that while the cocoa-nut 

 palm u rows freely everywhere along the coast of Jamaica, it is almost 

 entirely absent from Alligator Fond to Black Fiver, and, indeed, 



taken as an accidental circumstance, but careful inquiry on the spot 

 has convinced me that although the soil and climate diller very slightly 

 from those in other portions of the island where the cocoa-nut thrives 

 luxuriantly, jill efforts to 'aboard of the parish of 



St. Klizabefh, and especially in the Pedro district, have signally failed. 

 The plants appear to thrive for a few years and to grow reuiarkjibly 



jn , if 1; ot the chid' cause of theabse 



nee of the cocoa-nut palm was 



fundance of this beetle. Furthering 



iew. The Big Thatch appears 





ist, and. indeed, to thrive u . i ianth 



in spite of the beetle, but the 



,-nut fails. The terminal bud of the h 



itter offers an easily accessible 



tempting bonne hum-he to the larva, ; 



and it succumbs to its attacks. 



ic other hand the Big Thatch thrives 



and covers the country. 





must be made between the Big 



jh and the cocoa-nut palm. The wor 



k ol exterminating the former 



eou-ring several thousand acres, is a 



n alternative which is neither 





;ed desirable, if the ravages 



As before i 







palm ,h 



es not prove t 





Ve tO th 



till it begins 

















in.-d 





















and it remain; 



- Li'Ue 





it is about 12 j 









1 2 or 1 1 feet 



of stei 



111. lfi 



up to that age 



!t 



is rarely 



attacked 



afterwards. 



The greatest 



