Agricultural news . r in six months, andwere all .sound at the end of twelve months. It is pointedout that in storing nuts care must be taken that no heatingtakes place by over heaping, and that the husks should beperfectly dry before storing. Professor William IJateson, in opening the meeting ofthe Royal Society of Arts, April 10, 1918, .said in the courseof his speech that anyone who knew .something of geneticscience and its possibilities would feel arna/.ed at the practiceswhich prevailed on rubber plantations in the Malay Penin-sula, lie was i|uite sure that the application of trainedintel
Agricultural news . r in six months, andwere all .sound at the end of twelve months. It is pointedout that in storing nuts care must be taken that no heatingtakes place by over heaping, and that the husks should beperfectly dry before storing. Professor William IJateson, in opening the meeting ofthe Royal Society of Arts, April 10, 1918, .said in the courseof his speech that anyone who knew .something of geneticscience and its possibilities would feel arna/.ed at the practiceswhich prevailed on rubber plantations in the Malay Penin-sula, lie was i|uite sure that the application of trainedintelligence for a lew years would work a revolution, (lood,bad, and indifferent plants were biing cultivated; all .sortswere grown together, occupying opial >pace and a reasonable time it ought to be ijossible toproiluce a purestrain of the best trees only. The same thing also appliedtr) coco-nuts. (The////vi/ / tl R>yal S,i,i,ty ,<f Arts,May 3, 1918.) Vol. XVir. No. 421. THE AGRICULTUKAL NEWS. 189. TORTOLA: REPORTS ON THE AGRICUL-TURAL DEI^ARTMENT, igrj-jd AND 1916-ry. The reports on the Agricultural Department of theVirgin Islands, for the years 1915-10 and 1916-17 have justbeen issued together. It appears that the publication of theformer was delayed through unavoidable circumstances,hence the publication of the two reports toaether. In the report for 1915-16 we n>tice that the Curator,Mr. Fishlock, thinks that the Governor plum, of which thereis a hedge at the Station, Tortola, ought to be namedFUiaiiirtia ^epiaria and not E. Ramontchi, on the ground thatthe latter grows to a small tree, whereas the former isa shrub. This is ijuite true, but nevertheless, as was statedin a note in the A,i(ricuiti/m/ ., Vol. XIV, p. 339,the species fairly vyell spread throughout the West Indies,and successfully grown as a hedge not only in Tortola butin St. Lucia and Dominica as well, is E. Ramoiitclti, whichlike other small trees, lignum vitae for instance
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