that 28° North is 

 pted as the frost Sue, which may be said to mark the 

 limit northwards within which the growth of economic product! in 

 demand can be profitably undertaken. 



Fertility of Soil. 

 As to fertility of soil, what mere convincing proof can be advanced 

 than the facts that in the sugar areas to the north and south of the 

 Colony cane has been known to " ratoon " from 20 to 30 years, and that 

 in the rich anil naturally fertilised valle\ liciis. bananas have maintained 

 themselves without degeneration for 10 to 12 years, if not longer. 



The products of cultural industries, still really in their infancy, are 



promising mark* 



The plantain is a st ■ >[ Negroland 



in West Africa. The descendants of its interesting people ' to the 

 north of the Gulf of Mexico represent a consuming power of probably 

 9,000,000. Tons of this fruit from Cuba and elsewhere meet with a 



from 50,000 plantain- in 1ST!) to I.oSO,2<>0 in 1891. 



the Colony which 1 



