Edible Products. 



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In Trinidad, as indicated by the classifications of Morris and Hart, each 

 variety is subdivided into red and yellow forms, and the same applies generally to 

 the varieties in other cacao-growing countries. 



COLOUR OP OUTER, SURFACE OF FRUIT WALL. 



Variety. 



When Unripe. 



When Ripe. 



Caracas .. Usually red ; frequently green. 



Nicaragua ... Red or green. 



Cundeamor ... Red and green. 



Amelonado ... Green. 



Calabacillo ... Usually red. 



Usually reddish-yellow ; 



frequently yellow. 

 Reddish-yellow or yellow. 

 Reddish-yellow. 

 Yellow. 



Usually reddish-yellow. 



Shape and size. — In shape and size there is every variation between the long 

 pod with acuminate apex— as in some forms of Nicaragua and Cundeamor,— to the 

 short, ovate, broad base and blunt apex of Amelonado. Some forms are constricted 

 at the base— Cundeamor and Liso— others are wide at the base— Sambito and Amelo- 

 nado— and others intermediate between these. 



(To be continued.) 



REPORT ON COCOA AND COLA INDUSTRIES IN THE GOLD COAST. 



Introductory Note.— Doctor Gruner, District Commissioner, Togoland, 

 West Africa, visited the Gold Coast in August 1903 on behalf of the German 

 Agricultural Committee, by permission of the Governor of the Gold Coast, for 

 the purpose of acquiring information relative to the cocoa and cola industries 

 in that Colony. The report on his visit, written in German, appeared in the 

 August, September and October, 1904, numbers of " Der Tropenpflanzer " and the 

 following remarks are a precis of this report compiled by W. H. Johnson, 

 Director of Agriculture, Gold Coast Colony, West Africa. 



I. Tour in the Cocoa and Cola Districts. 



During the first two hours march after leaving Aburi few cocoa trees 

 were seen but they were much more numerous during the 3rd hour's march, at 

 the end of which Apasare was reached. This town is pleasantly situated between 

 wooded hills and surrounded by cocoa plantations. 



The natural sources of rubber in Akwapem have been destroyed and 

 many farmers have now commenced to cultivate plants distributed from the 

 Aburi Botanic Gardens. Previous to the cultivation of cocoa the oil palm was 

 carefully looked after in this district and oil prepared from its fruits for export, 

 but now only sufficient is manufactured for culinary purposes. 



Along the road from Apasare to Akroase, a distance of about ten miles, 

 cocoa plantations intermixed with oil palms were very abundant, the time taken 

 to cover the distance between the end of one plantation and the beginning of 

 the next not exceeding five minutes in any one instance. One enterprising native 

 planter at Akroase had planted 5,000 cocoa trees as well as several hundred 

 rubber trees. Practically the whole five miles of road between Akroase and 

 Kofrodua runs through cocoa farms, but in the new Juaben districts, of which 

 Kofrodua is the capital, they were not so numerous. 



