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Supplement to the " Tropical Agriculturist.'* [NoV'. 1, 1899. 
because some ignoramus in Florida once ttarted 
tlie outhindisli name " grapefruit," many i)ersons 
stick to it in the face of the known facts to the 
contrary. I'omelo is short, euphonic, plain, 
liistoric and sen&ible. ''Grapefruit" has none of 
these facts in its favour. In the name of common 
sense and intelligent pomologioul usage, I beg of 
everyone — growers, shippers, dealer.=, consumers 
and rural editors — to talk, speak, -write and print 
the true name pomelo in referring to this one of 
our luscious fruits.'' 
The following details of the sale of a small 
shipment of pine appks received from the We»t 
Indies by Messrs. John Haddon & Co., of London, 
will be of interest to fruit growers : — 
s. d, £ 
s. 
d. 
40 pines @ 1 1 = 2 
3 
4 
40 „ @ 0 10 1 
]3 
4 
41 „ @ 0. 8 = 1 
7 
4 
40 „ @ 0 6 = 1 
0 
0 
84 „ @ 0 5 = 0 
14 
2 
19.5 „ •= £ 6 
18 
2 
Dock charges, brokerage, &c. 0 
11 
6 
Agents' commission, post, cScc. 0 
r> 
0 
Home charges : 
Barrels . . . , = 0 
4 
0 
Carting . . . . = 0 
1 
6 
Freight = 1 
6 
0 
Cutting and Packing = 0 
3 
0 
0 16 C 
1 14 6 
2 11 0 
Profit . . . . 4 7 2 
£ 6 18 2 
It is very de.'irable that there should be a reform 
in the nomenclature of fruits and trees, and that 
loosely np})lied names should be altogether 
dropped and correct names adhered to. Dr. Watt 
gives the following synonyms for Citrus decumana, 
pumelo, shnddock, pompelmos (or pampelmouse), 
forbidden fruit and paradise apple besides grape 
fruit. The Sinhalese name (which is commonly 
used in Ceylon) is Jambola, which has to be 
distinguished from Jamobalan, the Indian name 
for Euyenia jambolana also known as Masan. 
We cannot, however, fully agree with Professor 
Van Denan as to the pumelo being particularly 
"luscious" and (us he calls it in another place) 
" delicious." 
It is the experience of many that nitrogenous 
manures encourage a rank sappy growth of 
wood in orange trees, and in young trees actually 
retard fruit bearing. What the tree mainly needs 
is potash, and if fruiting some phosphate also. 
This will furnish material for producing a 
moderate amount ot wood and plenty of fruit. 
The point in orange growing is not to encournge 
too much annual growth, which if moderate and 
if plenty of potash and phosphate be supplied 
will keep the tree much healthier than if over 
supplied with nitrogenous fertilizers. Too free 
use of animal manure for oranges is therefore 
to be avoided, 
In Jamaica the planting out of oranges and 
pumeloes in regular groves, budded from the best 
varieties, is being extensively done, and some of 
the groves of young budded trees are now 
beginning to bear. The export of oranges and 
pumeloes for the year ending 31st March, 1898, 
amounted to, oranges 88,013,091, value £134,673, 
against 99,691,900, value £123,7]5 this year, and 
])uraeloes 8,989 barrels and 5,620 boxes, value 
£7,983 l.j5.9t/. against a value of .£7,649 this year. 
" If chloride of lime be spread on the soil or 
near plants, i!:sects and vermin would not. be 
found near them." By its means plants will 
easily be protected from insect plagues, by simply 
bru.-liing over their stems with a solution of it, or 
fjninkling upcn. It has often been noticed that 
a patch of land which has been treated in this 
w ay remains religiously respected by " grubs," 
while the unprotected beds around are literally 
devastated. Fruit trees may be guarded from the 
attacks of "grubs" by attaching to their trunks 
pieces of tow smeared with a mixture of hog's 
lard and chloride of lime, and ants and grubs 
already in possession will rapidly vacate their 
position. Butterflies again will avoid all plants 
whose leaves have been sprinkled over with this 
chloride of lime. Directions :—l ounce of chloride 
to 8 of lard, I lb. of chloride to a pail of water. 
Citrus trees require very little pruning. The 
first year should see them take proper shape, and 
if well cared for they will exj and and develop 
•symmetrically without much subsequent pruning. 
A little pinching back here and there as the tree 
starts off the first year is ordinarily sufficien*. 
Make rhe trees head low and compactly. Don't 
put any ignoramus who professes to know it all, 
to butchering your trees as 1 have seen done 
recently, where a man went through a healthy, 
flourishing young grove, and left only skeletons 
behind, i-etiing the trees back more than a year's 
growth and fruiting. If you do not know how 
to do it yourself, or cannot get a man of experience 
to advise you, you had better not prune at all, 
concentrate your energies on thorough cultivation 
and feitilizing, and the tree will do the rest. 
MILK AND MILKING. 
That the milk last obtained in the ordinary 
milking of a cow is much richer than that first 
drawn, is well known to all observant dairymen. 
We have in the Australian Farm a report of a 
Danish experiment, with judicious remarks about 
milking generally. 
The experiment was made with milk drawn 
from a number of cows, and collecting the quan- 
tities of the different qualities as given below — 
" 1. Milk from the first streams, 172 lb., gav« 
1 lb. of butter. 
2. Milk from the middle streams, 381b., gav* 
1 lb. of butter. 
3. Milk from the last streams, 27 lb., gav» 
1 lb. of butter. 
4. Milk from the last drops, 12 lb., gave 1 lb. 
of butter. 
This shows that the after-milk is very rich in 
butter elements, and therefore very valuable. 
