1 Auva., 1898.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. 187 
Cultural Notes for Tropical Queensland. 
[The Cultural Notes for Tropical Queensland, kindly supplied by Mr. E. Cowley, Kamerunga 
State Nursery, are given a month in advance, for the obvious reason that the Journal cannot 
reach some parts of the far North until the month of issue is well-nigh over, and hence the 
monthly notes would be valueless until the following year. ] 
SEPTEMBER. 
Frnurne scrub should be continued for extending plantation areas. This 
being generally a dry month, but little planting of any kind can be done. All 
potatoes should be unearthed. Divi-divi pods still continue to be available 
for collecting. Oranges display blossom. Coffee-trees are in bloom for the 
second time. Every effort shoula be made to eradicate couch-grass from the 
cultivation. First picking of Liberian coffee commences. Bulbs of Hourecroya 
gigantea now available. Sugar-cane crushing continues. Old canes should 
be ploughed out, and lands prepared for replanting. 
Publication Received. 
We have received a copy of the eleventh edition of the ‘“ Handbook of 
Information,” issued by the Australasian United Steam Navigation Company. 
The work is well got up, and as usual the contents are varied, interesting, and 
useful. Especially is this so in the initiatory article, entitled “ Five Thousand 
Miles on the Australian Coast.” This gives in clear and concise form a mass 
of information which could only be laboriously learned otherwise from Blue- 
books, statistics, histories, and geographies, and is most interesting reading. 
Neither are New Caledonia, Fiji, or New Guinea forgotten. The illustra- 
tions of cities, public buildings, harbours, natives, &c., are all works of art, 
and give an excellent idea of the various cities on the Australian coast. For 
the benefit of those who desire information on other points, several pages are 
devoted to tables of distances (always of interest to the traveller), timetables, 
passage rates, &c. Taken as a whole, there can be no better guide to the 
coast of Australia than the handsome publication before us. 
