. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. INSECT NOTES. The Use of the Bengal Bean in Lime Cultivations. The Bengal bean {2faraii(i prurievH, var.) which has ofDeii been referred to in the publications of the Imperial Department of Agriculture on account of its value as a green dressing, is closely related to the velvet bean and the weed known as 'cow itch,' which are perhaps known to some of the of the Agri- cultural News, who are not familiar with the Bengal bean. It is a strong, vigorous-growing species, capable of making a dense covering on th
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. INSECT NOTES. The Use of the Bengal Bean in Lime Cultivations. The Bengal bean {2faraii(i prurievH, var.) which has ofDeii been referred to in the publications of the Imperial Department of Agriculture on account of its value as a green dressing, is closely related to the velvet bean and the weed known as 'cow itch,' which are perhaps known to some of the of the Agri- cultural News, who are not familiar with the Bengal bean. It is a strong, vigorous-growing species, capable of making a dense covering on the land and even over. Fii;. 20. Lime Trees Covkkeh by Bex(;al Be otlier plants. The accompanying illustration (Fig. 20) shows a field of limes in Montscrrat thoroughly covered over by Bengal beans. The Bengal bean was at first used at Montserrat purely as a green dressing on aixoufit of the large amount of organic matter which it returns to the land, and of its ability, in common with other leguihinous plants, to gather phenc nitrogen. It was discovered by chance that certain trees, wliich had been in a dying ^fate for some time past as the result of attack by scale insects, showed themselves much improved in general vigoiu' and freedom from scales after the Bengal bean plants liad climbed over tlieni and covered their brandies for a year or two. Since then, extended trials have been made with Bengal beans, and it is re[)orted that good results ahvaj's follow, and^that the results are better the more completely flie beans, cover in all the trees. The practice ijr Montserrat is to plant four or five beans around each tree at the lime of the jfirst rains in May or June, and to allow them to grow until the beans are ripe in the follow- ing March or April. The stems of the beans are then cut- l^^dnear the ground, and any portion of the vines that hSagi free from tiie tfees is cut oil', but the mass of vines on top of the tree is ;iot disturbed. No attempt is made t
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