554 



OLEAGINOUS PLANTS. 



watering plants, manuring, repairing fences, and supplying plants, 

 say hire of eight men for six months, about £150 sterling. The 

 same for the third. 



Fourth year's expenditure : hire of six hands for three months, 

 cleaning land, and manuring plants, about £60 sterling, and the 

 like, at the cultivator's option, for the fifth year. 



SUMMARY OP EXPENSES. 



£ 



First year 460 



Second year 150 



Third year 150 



Fourth year 60 



Fifth year 60 



Total expenditure 880 



Add for buildings 80 



And we have a grand total of £960 sterling expended; for 

 what purpose ? To secure a net income of at least £1,200 sterling 

 per annum for at least 50 years I 



In the first year's expenses many items might be cut down, but 

 I leave the calculation as one to be considered by a party with 

 small capital, intending to establish a coco-nut plantation. I have 

 allowed nothing for the cost of land, as it is impossible to compute 

 that. In general it would cost next to the nothing mentioned. I 

 have, by careful calculation, arrived at the conclusion that by com- 

 bining the cultivation of provisions with the gradual but steadily 

 progressive establishment of a coco-nut plantation, any man of 

 energy and perseverance may, with the aid of but four hands, clear, 

 fence, and plant, in a favorable locality, 50 acres of coco-nuts 

 within the year, yet have a balance in his pocket at its close. 

 Such a person would, ere doing anything beyond putting in his 

 nursery plants, establish a provision ground, of considerable ex- 

 tent, for the purpose of supplying himself and his laborers with 

 bread kind, and vegetables, and of enabling him, by the disj)osal 

 of the surplus produce in the market, to raise a sufficient sum of 

 money to furnish the wages and rations of the men. I need not 

 enter into a calculation to show how this could be done, as every 

 one must be aware of an easy method of following out so simple 

 a suggestion. Of course he would have to bear in mind that the 

 provision ground is of secondary importance, and limit his exer- 

 tions in that line accordingly ; devoting to the coco-nut plantation 

 the strictest daily attention. 



The cultivation of this tree deserves much more attention than 

 has hitherto been paid to it, particularly in the East, where it not 

 only forms part of the daily food of all classes of the community, 

 but is an exportable article to neighbouring regions, the oil 

 which it yields having of late years become in great demand in 

 England, for the manufacture of composite candles and soap, and 

 there is no doubt of its continually extended application to such 

 purposes. Supposing, nevertheless, the result of an increased 



