Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica. . -3 m 1891 3-17 0-92 0-03 1-44 2-54 5-54 11-88 426 7-41 5-77 6-66 4-09 53-74 a Avg. Monthly )Rainfall for 30 Iyears, 1862-91) 2-94 1-69 1-87 2-03 3-65 8-04 9-45 10-32 7-53 6-67 6-86 4-81 *65-91 18921893 1-933-43 2-191-85 1-850-19 7-593-61 11-5511-35 16-2610-19 15-5513-28 9-2116-321, 3-5711-73; 11-495-47 5-407-84 4-697-23 911492-49 ?Average Annual Rainfall for 30 years—1862 to 1891 = 65*91 inches. Average to date or 32 years—1862 to 1893 = 67*5 J. H. HART, ,Superintendent Botanical Department. i t V No. 41. March, 1893. BULLETIN OF THE BOTAN
Bulletin of the Botanical Department, Jamaica. . -3 m 1891 3-17 0-92 0-03 1-44 2-54 5-54 11-88 426 7-41 5-77 6-66 4-09 53-74 a Avg. Monthly )Rainfall for 30 Iyears, 1862-91) 2-94 1-69 1-87 2-03 3-65 8-04 9-45 10-32 7-53 6-67 6-86 4-81 *65-91 18921893 1-933-43 2-191-85 1-850-19 7-593-61 11-5511-35 16-2610-19 15-5513-28 9-2116-321, 3-5711-73; 11-495-47 5-407-84 4-697-23 911492-49 ?Average Annual Rainfall for 30 years—1862 to 1891 = 65*91 inches. Average to date or 32 years—1862 to 1893 = 67*5 J. H. HART, ,Superintendent Botanical Department. i t V No. 41. March, 1893. BULLETIN OF THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT, JAMAICA. CONTENTS: Cocoa Curing in Cured at Hope.—II. Instruction in the Cultivation of the Grape Vine.— or Lucerne. Improved Bee-Keeping for Small : Synoptical List.— to the Department. PRIC E—Twopence. [A Copy will be supplied free to any Resident in Jamaica, who will send Name and Address to theDirector of Public Gardens and Plantations, Gordon Town ]. JAMAICA: Government printing office, 79 duke street, Kingston. 1893. COCOA CURING IN CEYLON. The following information received from Dr. Trimen, Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon,will no doubt be of great interest to Planters in Jamaica. You ask about Cocoa curing. We always carefully wash off with repeated ablutions every par-ticle of mucilage from the seeds. No doubt this lessens weight, but much improves the sample and Ithink one of the principal reasons for the generally high price Ceylon cocoa fetches in London is theclean bright look of the bean. Another and perhaps more important thing is thorough drying. On es-tates this is always done by a current of hot air drawn by a fan through a small house, the seeds beingspread out in layers on trays and turned over several times. No Planter here would allow a speck ofmould to be seen on a Cocoa bean. I gave a description of the ordinary style of drying house for Cocoato Sir W. R
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