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applied. Many of the trees in the list do not occur in 
Guiana ; but it also includes our familiar Greenheart 
(Nectandra Rodioei) and, by name at least, our bullet 
tree or balata. As regards the greenheart, and indeed 
as regards the whole of the timber, it not unnaturally 
occurs to us, dwellers in so huge a forest, that the 
quantity to be obtained, even under the most favourable 
circumstances, from an area of only 40 square miles, 
is of comparatively little moment. As regards the so-called 
balata, which is said to be the same as our well known 
tree but which is identified as Bumelia retusa, it may be 
pointed out that our balata, though belonging to the 
same family, is a Mimusops not a Bumelia. 
Suggestions are also made as to the artificial products 
which might be cultivated on these flats - amongst 
others sugar, cacao, coffee — especially the Liberian 
variety — spices, rice, oranges, tobacco, and cattle* 
Having ourselves but very weak faith in the in- 
discriminate application of ' mixed cultivation ' we 
are inclined, so far as we may judge from 
the report which lies before us, to recom- 
mend the possible future cultivators of the Layou 
Flats to confine their attention to the growth of oranges 
and the production of cattle ; possibly tobacco might 
also be cultivated with advantage. 
The trade in oranges which has recently so greatly 
increased between the West Indies — and Dominica has 
taken a prominent place in the movement — and the 
United States, promises better results, it seems to us, 
than almost any other of the newer West Indian indus- 
tries. The rearing of cattle, which is hardly attempted 
in the West Indies, might certainly be carried on 
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