Miscellaneous. 



156 



[AUGUST, 1009, 



The tax on Citrate, do. 25. 7. 1008, 



p. 133. " T. A.." Nov. 1908, p. 431. 

 A. B. C. of lime cultivation. W. I. 



Dept. of Agr. Pain. 53, 1908., •* T. A." 



Nov. 1908, p.. 435, Dec. 535. 

 Spineless limes and ordinary limes, 



Agr. News, 7. 1908, p. 81 220. 

 Wind breaks for orange groves -in 



Porto Rico. Agr. News, 22. 8. 1908, 



p. 293. " T. A." Jan. 1909, p. 61. 

 A. B. C. of lime cultivation. ,l T.A." 



Dec. 1908, p. 538, eontd. Jan. 1909, p. 



38, Feb. 1909, p. 155. 

 Citrate of lime and concentrated lime 



juice. " T. A. Jan. 1909, p. 46. 

 The co-operative marketing of citrus 



fruits. " T.A." Feb. 1909, p. 137. 



Citrus Industry for India. Indian 

 Trade Journal, XII. 151, Feb. 1909. 

 "T.A," May 1909, p. 438. 



Coca :— 



de Joug. Extractie van coeablad. 

 Korte Berichten, Buitenzorg, 1906. 



Die Aussichten der Kokakultur. Der 

 Pflanzer, 1905, p. 288. 



de Jong. De verandering van het 

 alkaloid der cocabladeren met den 

 onderdom van het blad. Korte 

 Berichten, Buitenzorg, 1906. 



Die Kultur des Eocainstrauches, 

 Mitth. Amani 34. 4, 6, 1904. 



Winkler. Ueber den Kultur des 

 Kokastraucb.es, besonders in Java. 

 Tropenpfl. 1906, p. 69. 



A substitute for coca. Kew Bull. 



1907, p. 136. 



The coca plant ; cultivation and 

 curing. " T.A." Sept. 1907, p. 70. 



The drying of coca leaves. "T.A." 

 Feb. 1908, p. 137. 



Over Java coca. Ind. Merc. 25. 2. 



1908, p 127. Rev. in " T.A." June 

 1908, p. 525. 



Java coca, de Jong in do. 5. 3. 1908, 

 p. 315. 



Cheap cocaine. Chem. and Drug. 



Mar. 1908. "T.A." May 1908, p. 451. 

 Cocaine in India, do. do. p. 452. 

 van der Sleen, Over Java coca. Ind. 



Merc. 19. 5. 1908, p. 361. 

 Komt in de Java coca Kristalliseer- 



bare cocaine vor? de Jong. Ind. 



Merc. 28. 7. 1908, p. 553. 



do. van der Sleen. do. 4. 8. 1008, 

 p. 571. 



Coca leaves, Str. Bull. Aug. 1908, 

 p. 336. 



de Jong. Java coca. Ind. Merc. 18. 8. 

 1908, p. 605. van der Sleen. Java 

 coca. do. 1. 9. 1908, p. 637. 



IMPERIAL TRAINING IN 

 HORTICULTURE. 



(From the Gardeners' Chronicle, Vol. 

 XLV., No. 1159, March, 1909.) 



The task of cultivating the land of 

 the Empire is becoming more and more 

 one for trained horticulturists. The 

 increasing complexity of modern life 

 causes an increase in the number of com- 

 modities indispensable to that life. The 

 natural or agricultural rate of produc- 

 tion being too slow to meet the demand, 

 it has to give place to intensive 

 methods which are essentially horticul- 

 tural in their character. 



Our point of view is strikingly illus- 

 trated by the custom which is growing 

 up in various tropical regions of holding 

 what are called "agri-horticultural 

 shows " in the place of the purely agri- 

 cultural and purely horticultural shows 

 common in our own country. Though 

 the word agri-horticulture is ungainly 

 enough, it is expressive of the modern 

 trend of development of the science of 

 the cultivation of the earth. 



In treating of the training of horticul- 

 turists for the Empire, we have not 

 primarily in mind the training of men 

 for seivice in the Government Botanical 

 Gardens at home or abroad. Kew pro- 

 vides, in a manner not to be rivalled 

 elsewhere, the technical education and 

 practical experience necessary for the 

 men who are to fill official posts of this 

 kind, and in the present, as in the past, 

 Kew men are giving an excellent ac- 

 count of themselves in all parts of the 

 civilised world. 



But even with respect to such posts as 

 these more might be done than is at 

 present attempted. For botanical gar- 

 dens are becoming also experimental 

 stations. Now, the director of an ex- 

 perimental station requires special 

 training of a kind not yet available at 

 Kew. In such a man practical skill in 

 the science of horticulture should be 

 combined with a knowledge of the 

 methods of experimentation. 



We are concerned for the moment 

 with the need for training young men 

 who possess small available capital, or, 

 in default of capital, a fair endowment 

 of energy, and who are willing to emi- 

 grate to one or other part of the Empire 

 in order to till the soil. 



It would be well for the Empire if the 

 home country were engaged in prepar- 

 ing and sending out year by year 

 colonists who had a knowledge of the 

 methods of horticulture already im- 

 planted within them. 



The reader may ask : Is it likely that 

 any system of training at home will be of 



