to prevent attack upon trees hitherto i 

 save injured plants. The former are 

 the opinion of many expei-ienced men do not exist, 



1. Methods of Growth and Cultivation. 



Care should be taken in the choice of sites for new p 

 special attention paid to the avoidance of undue proximity to a cohoon 

 ridge. Drain:! ,. for the trees have been observed 



to suffer in swampy ground. I'hey should not be planted too close; 

 every occasion of felling a tree in order to thin out a plantation affords 

 a source of atti . and imposts a consequent necessity 



for destroying the felled trees and stumps that they may not serve as 

 breeding-places. Moreover the spread of any infectious disease is 

 materially assisted l>y close planting. How far it is expedient or possible 

 to grow the trees in small plantations separated from each other by 



large plantations are particularly t'a\ ourable to the spread and mull ipli- 

 cation of any insect that has established itself in them. 



The trees should be left as far Be tral state, and 



unnecessary trimming either of fronds or of the fibre avoided. It may be 

 necessary to tie up the older fronds, and if they must be removed the 

 stalk should be cut through sufficiently far from the stem to leave the 



nore than one-third of the original plant- peri.diod, before the estate 

 ,vas ten years old, and they iverc going at the r,4te of three trees 

 veokly. The work of trimming was -topped for the reasons offered 

 ib'.ive; the loss of nets continued for some time afterwards, but at 

 he end of six months it had entirely ceased. On another property 



tantly lost: from the day that the btetlers were discontinued two 



rces periled within the monili. and not another was lost in the sub- 

 equent seven years " (22). And AV. 15. L. writes in the Tropical 

 ricHltarist to "the same effect :—" The red-beetle \_IUnjnclu phonis 



All wounds, whether made by i 

 of the stem, leaf shea 



