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THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTUEIST. [March ], 1899. 
The material is good, and cin be supplied in quan- 
tity, but buyers are wanting. Advertise dried bananas 
in the same way as Tibbie's Vi-Cocoa, and it would 
sell and make handsome profits, but to put femall 
samples on the market results in Iobb and failure. 
Yours, &o., 
J. n Haul 
Ur. Fawcett to Mr. DBtEBEEO. 
Hope Gardens, Kingston, P. 0., 
Jamaica, August 30, 1898. 
Deau Sik,— I Kegret to say that at present there 
is no established trade in banana meal orljanana flour. 
Efforts are continually beinp; made how«ver, and 
I hope we may be succesbful before long. 
Yours, &c., 
\V. Fawcett. 
Mr. Fawcett to Mr. Deiebero. 
September 12, 1898. 
SiK— In answer to your letter of 20th July, I 
beg to enclose copy of a letter from a rebident 
here, who has done his best to start a trade, but 
BO Uv has failed. 
1 shall be pleased to give you any further in- 
formation iu my power. 
lours, &c., 
W. Fawcett. 
With reference to the " banana meal," there 
is really no market or outlet for it, and I have 
been working the thing for all its worth, and have 
spent about £S00 over it trying to get a satisfactory 
market, but all to no puipose , ^ . 
Qu. tatioiis have been made by Blessrs. John 
Haddon & Co. Bouverie Hoirse, Salisbury Square, 
Lendon, E.C , as being worth £27 a ion of 2.2l0 lb. 
ex-warehouse and docks, London. 1 have offered to 
supply at those rates— Haddon & Co. were simply 
booming it. , , . . ^ • n 
I have sent tons of meal to various conntries— all 
to no purpose — as the market seems to want it to 
compete with wheat or rice. 
All I can manage to sell is a barrel now and then. 
I sell at 3d. per lb. landed in Kingston. 
The dried banana as a fig is a failure, as the 
vineous fermentation sets in so quickly that by the 
time the fruit has been in England two or three 
months it is too unsightly to look at the second 
time, or, as my London Agents wrote to say, " it's 
too suggestive." . , . , , 
I am sorry I cannot give yon a brighter account. 
Mr. Geast, if he could have got the meal in free 
to the States, would have taken all the Island 
could have produced at £30 per ton ex warehouse 
New York, He wanted it for a new kind of beer. 
PLANTING NOTES. 
Ehodobenbbon Ciliicalyx.— This is the name of a 
new Rnododendron discovered by the Abbe Uelavay, 
in Yunnan, and figured by M. Andre, in the Hevue 
Horticole of the 16th inst. The leaves resemble those 
of E ciliatum, and the flowers, which are between 
4 and 5 inches across, are widely campanulate and 
white, flushed with violet. The clayx is less than 
a quarter-of-an-inoh long, with roijnded lobes, 
bordered with long hairs. The plant has flowered 
in the garden of M. Milne Edwards. E. cilucalyi, 
with no fewer than thirty-five other species from 
the same region, was described by M. Franchet, 
in the Bulletin Soc. Botan. France, xxxiil., p. 223, 
and vet there are those who consider that there 
are no more worlds to conquer in the department 
gystematio botany l—ffaj-cieners' ChonicU, 
EucALypTUs coedata.— The Earl of Anneeley ob- 
ligingly forwards from Castlewellan, co. Down, a 
spray with flower-buds of this species, which so far 
has proved haidy iu East Ii*laud. The mature 
leaves are sessile, about 5 cent. l<jng by 4 cctit. in 
breadth, cordate, ovate, obtuse, glaucous on both 
surfaces. The flowers are in stalked clusters, each 
cluster consisting of three flowers. It is handsome 
in appearance, and has an aromatic fragrance. — 
Gardeners' Chronicle. 
Eucalyptus Globulus. — An interest being evinced 
in the age and dimensions of rpeciea of Eucalyptus 
growing in the«e islands, I wibh to state that I 
saw a very fine t7)ecimen of E. Globulus laet 
summer in the gardens at Meadfoot Rock. Torquay ; 
and Mr. Solomau, the gardner at that place, kindly 
sent me the age and height of tliis tiee, mz.. 20 
years and 5(1 feet retpectively. Spreading ciicum- 
feren-.e of the trunk at the base is 3i ftet. C. L. 
Branson, Colesliill Park. — Gardeners' Chronicle. 
Wh. J. G. Bakek. — On the occasion of the retire- 
ments of this Gentleman from the post of Curator 
of the lierbaiium at Kew, his rid colleaguef, the 
members of the stufT, presented him with an addrefcs 
expressive of their affectionate respect. A re- 
presentation of the elegant Bromeliad. calkd 
Bakeria tillandsioides, diawn by Miss .Suiitli, the 
bot^<nical artist, served to frame the addrrhs. The 
signaturirs were confined to pcrmaucnt members .£ 
the staff and to one or tno regular visitors to the 
Herbarium. Had it been otherwise many others 
would have been proud and pleased to have bad the 
opportunity of adding their tribnte of respect and 
gratitude to one who has done so much for botany 
and gardening.— G'ir(/efifr«' Chronicle. 
The San Jose Scale. — At the last meeting of the 
Berlin Horticultural Society, Professor Frank read 
a p;ip' r of great interest on the " S;vn Jo^e Scale 
and its allies " Professor Frank said that zoologists 
have an idea that the A^pidiotua conchttformif, 
which is widely di-persed in Europe, is but a geogra- 
phic form of the American Ai-pidiotus perniciotus. To 
decide this question, Professor Frank made a t-pecinl 
journey last summer to those countries which have 
a similar climate to that of those American regions 
where the San Jo^e scale makes the greatest de- 
vastation, viz., to Tirol, especially to the valley of 
the river Etsch and Eisark, and alto to South B»den. 
The result of these investigations was to establish 
the fact that there is not the slightest di£f<>rence 
betwedn the Aspidioius conchsefoiniis of Meran, 
Botzen, &c., and that of Eistern Prussia. So this is 
a true species, and diSereut from the Ameiican 
one. Besides this, Professor Frank gave particulars 
respecting the reproduction of the scale insect. He 
found that Aspidiotus conchseformis and obstreaef( r- 
mis have but one generation yearly, and thai one 
female has a progeny of thirty-five to fifty descen- 
dants. American writers say that the San Jose 
scale has three generntions yearly, and that each 
female breeds about COO young scales. To examine 
into this remarkable difference. Professor Frank 
received at three different times, in the spring, at 
the end of June and in the autumn, twigs of Peach 
directly from America, densely beset with the true 
San Jose scale. Investigation thowed that on the 
twigs sent in spring there were numerous females 
and males, as also young chrysalids in different 
states ot development. On the twigs in June the 
adult males were absohitely lacking, also the adult 
females, only young scales in great quantity were 
present. On the twigs in autumn there were again 
females and males, and young chrysalids. From 
this Profesger Frank concludes that tbe San Jot6 
scale has also but one generation yearly. Besides 
this, he investigated the females, and found, not 
600, but about thirty ovules and young in them, a 
number which is in accordance with that fonnd in 
the European scales. His decision, therefore, is 
that the American theory is an erroneous one, it 
is questionable whether the San Jote scale can live 
in Europe at all. Dr. Udo Dammer, Grosse LiQlitcv 
felclet—Qar^eners' ChonicU, 
