. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 68 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. February 27, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. AN ABNORMAL COCOA-NUT. In the A(jrical(ur(il Btdh'tln of the Straits St'ttlements for October last, Mr. T. F. Weld, District (Jfficer at Kwala Selangor, gives the following interest- ing account of an abnormal cocoa-nut found in that colony:— At Assam .Java, Kwala Selaugor, there is a iilantation of cocoa-nuts whicli contains two trees of great jieculiarity. Instead of the bunches of flowers, which ajipear on the ordinary cocoa nut tree, are found sho
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 68 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. February 27, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. AN ABNORMAL COCOA-NUT. In the A(jrical(ur(il Btdh'tln of the Straits St'ttlements for October last, Mr. T. F. Weld, District (Jfficer at Kwala Selangor, gives the following interest- ing account of an abnormal cocoa-nut found in that colony:— At Assam .Java, Kwala Selaugor, there is a iilantation of cocoa-nuts whicli contains two trees of great jieculiarity. Instead of the bunches of flowers, which ajipear on the ordinary cocoa nut tree, are found shoots wlticli jut out from the tree not unlike the spike of a nipa [lalni. As the so-called spike grows, the cocoa-nuts tiieinselves, without any .show of flower whatsoever, appear in line along the whole length of the .shoot somewhat like the fruit on a bunch of ' rambai,' but quite close together. As the inits swell, the number, which at first might amount to fifty on one shoot, is gradually lessened as they fall ott' before waturit}'. In the end there probably remain some seven or eight nuts only on each shoot, of which there may be ap|iarently about the same number as an ordinary cocoa-nut tree has branches of flowers. The natives here have never heard of any similar trees except these two and they call them ' nyor-nipa.' FRUIT AND NUTS AS FOOD. Inditiii Plaiitiiii/ iiiiil 0(11'dciiilUj of November 21 gives an account of conducted by the United States Department of Agriculture to determine the dietary value of different foods. The in question were condiicted during the space of two years by Prof. Jaffa, of the University of Calilornia. The Ibllowing extract is of interest as indicating the food value of nuts and fruit, and more especially of pea nuts, or ground nuts as they are usuall}' called in the West Indies:— The fare given in these experiments was in every case one that would ap[)eal to any normal ajipetite. It embraced honey, tomatos, ai&g
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