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MISCELLANEOUS. 



LITERATURE OP ECONOMIC 

 BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE. 

 By J. C. Willis, D.Sc. 



Attalea — 



The Coquilla nut palm. Gard. Chron. 

 5. 12. 1908, p. 396. 



Avocado.— 



Remarks on the palta or avocado 

 pear. Brigham. Hawaiian Fores- 

 ter, 1906, p. 144. 



The avocado, a salad fruit from the 

 tropics. "T.A." Feb., 1900, p. 41. 



Propagating the avocado by budding. 

 "T.A." Sept. 1907, p. 195. 



Avocado pears : preparation and 

 shipment. Agr. News. 28. 11. 1907, 

 p. 404., " T.A." Mar. 1908, p. 208. 



The Avocado Pear. Macmillan in 

 "T.A." Dec. 1908, p. 521. 



The avocado in Florida. U. S. Dept. 

 Agr. B. P. I. Bull. 81. 



Balata.— 



Ch. & Drug.. May 1908. " T.A. Sept. 

 1908, p. 212. 



Bamboos.— 



L' industrie des chapeaux de bambou 



a Java. Bull. Jard. Col. 6, p. 80. 

 Zimmermann. Ueber Bambus. Der 



Pflanzer 1906, p. 177. 

 A bamboo disease. "T.A," Sept. 



1907, p. 204. 

 Note sur les bambous de l'lndochine. 



Bull. Ec. Indoch. 1907, p. 872. 

 Bamboos. Their study, culture and 



use. The Ind. Forester, Dec. 1908, 



p. 727. 



Bassia.— 



Bassia latifolia gum. Ind. Forester, 



Aug. 1906, p. 399. 

 Preparation of Bhil liquor from 



Mahna flowers, do. Nov. 1906, p. 



553. 



The mahna tree. "T.A." June 1906, 

 p. 372. 



Le Karite en Afrique occidentale. 



Bull. Jard. Col. 1908, p. 270. 

 Misc. Econ. Prods- 2 Bassia, Willis 



in "T.A." Nov. 1908, p. 429. 



Bertholletia- 



See Brazil nut. 

 Betelpepper.— 



Cultivation of the betel vine. 

 Perera. "T.A." Oct. 1907, p. 281.. 

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Bhghia.— The Akee tree, Blighia sapida. 

 Joui n. B. of A., Brit. Guiana, Jan. 

 1908, p. 12. "T.A." June 1908, p. 535. 



Blumea.— 



A note on the manufacture of Ngai 

 Camphor from the Blumea balsa- 

 mifera, D. C. of Burma, Puram 

 Singh. Ind. Forest Reed. I. III. 

 1908, p. 215. 



Brazil-nut.— 



The tree at Henaratgoda fruited for 

 the first time early in 1902. 

 Breadjrut. — 



Breadfruits of the tropics. Mac- 

 millan in "T.A." Nov. 1908, p. 428. 

 Brosimum.— 



Eeu mor Kwaarddige Boom. Ind. 

 Merc. 12. 6. 1906, p. 391. 

 Brucea.— Examination of the fruit of 

 Brucea antidysenterica. Ch. and 

 Drug., July 1905, p. 174. 

 Use of Ko-Sam seeds, Str. Bull. 

 Aug. 1907, p. 252. 

 Chemical examination of Brucea 

 sumatrane. do. May 1908, p. 175. 



Bulyrospermum. — 



Palm oil and shea butter. Jam. Bull. 



1905. p. 252, 

 Le Karite les vegetaux utiles de 



1' Afrique occidentale francaise II, 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



By C. Drieberg, 

 Secretary, Ceylon Agricultural Society. 



A. J.— Cholum and Jowar are Indian 

 names for Sorghum vulgare, which is 

 very largely cultivated there both for 

 grain and fodder. In fact, it may be 

 said to be the chief fodder plant, taking 

 the place of our Mauritius grass 

 (Panicum mulicum) which is hardly 

 kuown in India. The fodder is some- 

 times fed fresh, but generally in the 

 dry condition in the form of an inferior 

 hay. 



Grasshoppers.— The Government En- 

 tomologist of New South Wales thinks 

 that the most effective way of dealing 

 with grasshoppers is to spray them 

 with kerosene emulsion. One gallon 

 of water should be boiled with half 

 a lb. of hard soap, to which must be 

 added two gallons of kerosene. This 

 ought to be thoroughly well mixed by 



