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Hoeing is done at intervals of about 

 six weeks or two months, and in the dry 

 season more frequently. The method of 

 keeping a circle clean around each tree 

 and cutlassing the remainder of the field 

 is not adopted on Montserrat planta- 

 tions. 



Appendix III. 

 Exports op Lime Products. 

 Details of the exports of lime products 

 from the Islands of Dominica and Mont- 

 serrat are given in this Appendix in 

 tabular form. 



Table I. gives the lime products from 

 Dominica for the years 1892-1895 inclu- 

 sive. Exports of concentrated juice, 

 raw juice for cordial, hand-pressed oil, 

 distilled oil, pickled limes, and green 

 limes are given. In addition to these, 

 222 gallons of lime cordial of a value of 

 £33, and 733 cwt. of* citrate of lime 

 valued at £1,503 were exported in 1906, 

 and 6,352 gallons of cordial, of a value of 

 £953, and 2,388 cwt. of citrate of lime, of 

 a value of £7,761 were shipped during 

 1907. These amounts have been included 

 in the total values that are given for 

 these years. 



There are also given in this table 

 columns that show the total estimated 

 crops of the several years in barrels of 

 lime fruits and in gallons of lime juice. 

 In 1892 it is estimated that 58,616 barrels 

 of limes were produced, while in 1902 

 this had increased to 249,178. In that 

 year, however, a severe gale and attack 

 of scale insects affected the lime cultiva- 

 tions to such an extent that the crop of 

 1903 was neariy 50 per cent, less than 

 that of the previous year. A gradual 

 recovery has been made since then, until 

 in 1907 we find that the crop is estimated 

 at 272,229 barrels. 



Table II. gives the exports of lime 

 products for Montserrat for the years 

 1892-1907. Where figures are not given, 

 information has not been obtainable. 



[Tables follow on next two pages.] 



Appendix IV. 



USEFUL REFERENCES. 



General. 



The lime industry in Dominica, Timshri, 

 1888, p. 81. 



The West Indian lime, Kew Bulletin, 

 1894, p. 113. 



The West Indian lime, Journal of 

 Royal Horticultural Society, Vol. XXXII., 

 p. 172. 



Cultivation, Etc. 

 Cultivation of limes in West Indies, 

 Agrisidtural Neivs, Vol, II., p, 85. 



Planting lime trees, Agricultural News, 

 Vol. IV., p. 215. 



Lime cultivation, Agricultural Netvs, 

 Vol. V., p. 148. 



Varieties. 

 Spineless limes, Dominica, Agricultural 

 News, Vol. 1., p. 180. 



Limes at Dominica, Agricultural Nlws, 

 Vol. II., p. 37. 



Spineless limes, Report on the Botanic 

 Station, etc., Dominica, 1906-7, p. 15. 



Products. 



Coucent v ated lime juice (ascertaining 

 its strength by means of* a hydrometer), 

 Agricultural News, Vol. IV., p. 349. 



Concentrated lime j nice (ascertaining its 

 strength by means of a hydrometer), 

 West Indian Bulletin, Vol. IV., p. 236. 



Lime juice concentration, West Indian 

 Bulletin, Vol. VIII., p. 171. 



Citrate of lime and concentrated juice, 

 West Indian Bulletin, 

 Vol. VI., p. 308. 

 Do do do do 



Vol. VIII., p. 167, 



Do do Agricultural News, Vol. 



I., p. 99. 



Do do Preparation of, West- 



Indian Bulletin, Vol. 

 III., p. 152. 

 Citrate from Dominica, Agricultural 

 News, Vol. V., p. 324. 

 Do from Seychelles, Agricultural 



News, Vol. VI., p. 27. 

 Do in Sicily, Agricidtural News, 



Vol. VI., p. 83. 

 Do , West Indian Bulletin, Vol. 

 VII., p. 331. 



Do .Dominica, W est Indian Bulle- 

 tin, Vol. VIII., p. 170. 



Imperial Department of Agriculture 

 for the West Indies. 



A. B.C. of Lime Cultivation. Pamphlet 

 Series, No. 53. 



