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can be accommodated on each acre — should receive 
the consideration it deserves. Judging from the 
exports from the Malay Peninsula, and the imports 
to the United States, there is a promising field of 
demand offered in the direction of the later for the 
growth of Liberian coffee and of such commodities 
as jute and other fibres, indigo, ginger, and spices 
gnerally. 
Cohune Oil. — The Cohune oil industry remains yet 
dormant, if I expect the use for domestic and 
cooking purposes to which it is put among the families 
of mahogany and logwood cutters, Two-fifths of the 
Colony, viz., 1,933,702 acres are, it is estimated, 
under this graceful native '• Prince of Wales " palm. 
If we allow 25 trees to the acre, a very low average, 
and 1,000 nuts as the annual yield per tree, and accept 
that 100 nuts yield a quarter of oil, this dormant 
industry, if awakened to full activity, would yield 
276,537 tons of oil at a price per ton appreciably 
above that which obtains for coconut oil, to whicli 
it is superior. 
Pine Products. — Then, again, apart from its resi- 
nous property, which was turned, I understand, to 
profitable account some years back, the native pine 
is estimated to cover a third of the Colon v. or. 
1,613,13(5 acres, and to average 100 trees per acre 
on our great southern pine ridge. Its wood is said 
to almost equal that of the yellow pine of the Unite 1 
States, which, in the beginning of lhiS.s, was reported 
to have been nearly worked out and might, in part, 
have to be replaced by the local pine. The ■_ 
on the older pine-ridges of the Cjlony may, when 
opened up, prove of sufficient age aud diamete" to 
make it worth while to have attention turned to 
adding this timber to our exports, as can doubtless 
be done with many other valuable woods as yet 
unknown: 
Coco-Nuts and Henequen. — The coral patohes and 
marine islets we know as ''Cays," that fringe to 
the eastward the waters of this Colony, oil \t a 
condition of site exceptionally favourable for the 
growth of henequen and the coconut tree, described 
as the most tender of palms as regards frost, the 
friend of tropical agriculturist. The area of such 
Cays is given approximately as 11-2,5 -'7 acres, which 
might be turned to much more profitable uses aud 
yield than obtain at present. With even a quarter 
of such screage suitable for the culture or such 
products as coconuts and henequen, it eould be 
covered with plantations of the former numbering 
2 813 200 trees with an annual yield of at ieast 100 
nuts '(a low avere?e) aggregating 281 320,000, worth, 
at the current rate per thousand, 1,406 600/., I might 
explain that such an aggregate of outs on the basis 
of 1 lb. from 7 nuts or 14 per cent, fibre, should 
yield 18,000 tons of fibre that would realise in the 
London markets from 301. to 10/. per ton, according 
as it is suited for brushes, mats, or stuffing. 
The annual export from the C olony of co onuts 
during the past five years have averaged in number 
1,651,333, and in yalna $32,505. 
Sapodilla and Pimento. — That delicious fruit, th e 
sapodilla, if picked green, will stand shipment ; the 
tree abounds in this Colony, and apart from its valu- 
able and durable wood, yields an extract which 
contributes mainly to the manufacture of what is 
advertised and so widely used in the United States 
as " chewing gum." Then, again, trees yielding 
the pimento of commerce abound in a wild and 
unappreciated state, yet this spice was exported from 
Jamaica to the value of 81,3-6/. in the year 1S90-1. 
— Kew Bulletin. 
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Ringing in Ears, &c., no matter how severe or long- 
standing, will be sent post free. — Artificial Ear- 
drums and similar appliances entirely superseded. 
Address THOMAS KEMPE, Victoria Cham- 
bers, 19, Southampton Buildings, Holborn, 
London. 
VARIOUS PLANTING NOTES. 
Royal Gardens KEw.-Bulletin of Miscellaneous 
Information for September has for contents s— 
Vegetable Resources of India; Botany of the Ha- 
d.amaut Expedition; Decades Kewenses : I\ 
Micellaneous Notes. ' 
Mr William Lint, in the empluy of the JIun.I 
Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretai v of 
Mate for the Colonies, Assistant Superintendent of 
the Royal Botanic G.udeus. Trinidad. Air Lunt 
was also lately employed as botanical collector 
attached to Mr. Theodore Benfs Expedition to 
™ e ,. Hadramaut Valley, Southern Arabia.-A7, t . 
Central Africa and Planting Prospect* — The 
Jioard for Botany of the Roval Society decided not 
long since to send Mr. Scott Elliot, the well-known 
I otanist, to make a botanical exploration in Central 
Africa. Mr. Elliot reached his destination a few weeks 
ago His first report has been received. It shows that 
,.1 r 1 a f °\ er the Wh ° le ° f tlli8 re 8 io » U P to a » altitude 
of 6,000 feet remains unchanged, and points to the pro- 
bability that it extends similarly down to the Zambesi 
Ihere are only very few trees to be seen, the common- 
est being the euphorbia and erythrina. and the variety 
of plants is likewise somewhat limited, the principal 
being the acanth— a plant richly ornamented with red 
spikes of flowers and large prickly leaves. The banana 
supplies the wants of the people, but coffee and tobftoeo 
and all other tropical plants could be grown if properly 
c ultivated. He is. however, prevented from process' 
ing as satisfactorily as he could wish by obstructive 
weeds, which grow in great thickness and to a great 
height, and as the compass shows most extraordinary 
variations, he finds it almost impossible to make out 
his course.—//, and V. Mad. 
THE ATTEMPT to train European and Eurasian 
apprentices for -work in Botanical gardens is un- 
favourably reported on, and. for want of recruits 
the Botanical Superintendent at Sahwpnpore 
proposes, with some diffidence tw train juvenile 
offenders from the Bareilly Reformatory for bo- 
tanical work.— J/. Times, Oct. 24. 
The Unemployed Te.w;akdens. — We read 
that the offices of Tea-garden agents are being 
deluged with letters from those who are out of work 
or who expect to be soon. The world seems t., 
have Orange-Pekoe and Congo enough ! But 
the question is whether there is anything at all 
that the world wants which unemployed might 
turn to supplying ! — J/. Times, Oct. 25. 
Ceylon Tea in America.— It is interesting to 
learn of the numbor who have besun, or are about 
to begin, a business in supplying America with Ceylon 
tea The Company for whom Mr. Webster travels 
was perhaps, earliest in the field having commenced, 
we be lave, in 1892 and seemed almost at once to 
secure considerable orders from Canada as well as the 
States. Messrs. P. R. Buobanan * Co. turned their 
attention to Amc-rica in 1891. and for three years 
the senior partner visited th° States, but did not 
secure muoh attention to India and Ceylon teas 
til! early in 1893. Mr. A. E. Wright organized a 
business agency for certain Ceylon tea during his 
visit in the Exhibition year ; aod a contemporary's 
eorrerpondent mentions that Mr. Farr (formerly of 
Wattson & Parr) is doing a fair and increasing 
business in Ceylon leaf ; while we know of Mr. J. A. 
Henderson's special visits to New York on behalf 
of the enterprising Firm he represents. But all 
this— lo judge by the aotual figures representing 
experts so far— is as nothing to what we have a 
right to look for when once a " Ceylon campaign " 
is properly eet egoing, 
