English Greens grown at Cinchona. 



Names. 



Dates of 

 Sowing. 



Mean 

 Avg. Temp. 



Rainfall. 



No. of 

 Days on 

 which Rain 

 fell. 











Kale Scotch 



Kale Cottagers 



Broccoli Purple Sprouting ... 



" Penzance Early ... 

 Snows White 



21.1.90 

 21.1.90 

 21.1.90 

 21.1.90 

 21.1.90 



66. 7 F. 

 66.7 F. 

 66.7 F. 

 66.7 F. 

 66.7 F. 



in. 



47.22 

 47.22 

 47.22 

 47.22 

 47.22 



87 

 87 

 87 

 87 

 87 



None of these Greens bore at all. The sprouts, 

 the edible portion of them, were not produced 

 and made no signs of production up to the 

 16th of October when tkey were removed to 

 make room for the onion seeds from Canary 

 Islands. I am afraid they would never pay to 

 cultivate when they had no frost on them. 

 The Broccoli also, being distinctly winter vege- 

 tables, 1 think would not pay to grow. W. C. 







First 

 Head. 



Days 

 from 

 planting. 



Avg. Diam. 

 of Heads. 



Avg. Temp. 



Rainfall. 



Number 

 of Days. 



Avg. of 

 Heads. 



Cauliflower Veitch's — 

 Autumn Giant 



21.1.90 



7.8.90 



167 



7 inches. 



66.7 



47.22 



87 



14 per cent. 



During May, June, and July only 3.74 inches of rain fell on 19 days I think this had a very bad effect on the 

 cauliflower ; in an ordinary season I think it is very probable the percentage of heads would be much higher, as the 

 average rainfall for the three months stated was for 5 years previous, 32.72 inches. 



Carrots grown at Cinchona. 



Names. 



Date of sowing. 



! Of edible size. 



j Number of roots 

 pulled. 



Average weight 

 in ounces. 



Mean avg. temp. 



Rainfall. 



1 Days on which 

 | rain fell. 



Days from plant- 

 ing, Carrots of 

 edible size. 



Janus Intermediate 



21.1,90 



12.6 90 



12 



18 



62.7 



30.58 



49 



122 



Long Surrey 



21.1.90 



These 



were Ion 



g and to 



ugh and 



were ne 



ver fit to 



eat. 



Early Short Horn 



None 



came to 



edible si 



ze, grubs 



destroye 



d three 



sowings. 





CULTIVATION OF CACAO. 



The following notes on Cacao in Colombia by Mr. R. B. White, written in 1883, and published in 

 one of the Kew Annual Reports, are valuable. With regard to tbe question of Shade- Trees, planters 

 are anxious to find a substitute for the brittle Erijthrina (Madre de Cacao) ; probably the best substitute 

 would be the Jac Fruit tree, the timber of which is very valuable, or the Kola tree. Questions are 

 sometimes asked as to the desirability of growing Bananas and Cacao together permanently, and the 

 advice given is that while it is important to grow Bananas for shade for 2 or 3 years, they should then 

 be cut down. It is to be noted that Mr. White is of the same opinion. 



" Soil. — The Cacao tree exhausts the soil very rapidly. It requires a good rich and thick stratum 

 of vegetable soil, which should overlie gravel or some open substratum. Stagnant moisture round the 

 roots is prejudicial to Cacao At the same time it requires so much moisture that sloping ground 

 does not suit, it. In dry seasons and dry climates irrigation should be judiciously employed. 



Diseases. — In Antioquia, United States of Colombia, South America, the Cacao plantations have been 

 nearly ruined by a fungus which attacks the tree in a similar way as Hemileia vastatiix does the coffee. 

 The leaves appear spotted, then turn brown, shrivel up, and finally the tree looks as if it had been 

 scorched. If the tree is in flower, the buds fall off, but if it is already in fruit, the pods shrivel and 

 wither and the beans become mouldy and dry up. Hundreds or perhaps thousands of acres of plan- 

 tations have been destroyed by this plague. No remedy has been found. The planter's resource is 

 to clear the ground, lime it well, and then replant from new and sound seed, taking great care af for- 

 wards to prune away and destroy every branch or tree in which the disease may appear. It is believed 

 that the disease was first induced by careless and indiscriminate irrigation during a season when the 

 air was more humid than usual. 



The Cacao is such a delicate tree that the growth of the finest mosses and lichens on its bark 

 affects its health. At the proper season the stem and branches should be cleaned by wiping them with 

 a rough cloth or sacking. Parasitic plants are very fond of the Cacao, and are, of course, fatal to it. 

 They should be exterminated. 



Shade. — The reason why Erythrina is preferred as a shade tree for the Cacao, is because it abstracts 



