. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1864 TROPICAL FRUITS TROXIMON markets. Mealy bug attacks the cultivated pine-apple, and blight and tangle-foot occur as in Florida, but in suitable situations it grows wild without any cultivation quite free from disease. Cocoanufs.—There is a large export of cocoanuts in the shell from the W. Indies, and in Ja
. Cyclopedia of American horticulture, comprising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and ornamental plants sold in the United States and Canada, together with geographical and biographical sketches. Gardening. 1864 TROPICAL FRUITS TROXIMON markets. Mealy bug attacks the cultivated pine-apple, and blight and tangle-foot occur as in Florida, but in suitable situations it grows wild without any cultivation quite free from disease. Cocoanufs.—There is a large export of cocoanuts in the shell from the W. Indies, and in Jamaica there is a factory for making cocoanut oil. The palms are sub- ject in some districts to a disease which attacks the terminal bud. So far as can be judged, it is of a bacterial nature, and probably infection is caused by beetles and other insects. In the West Indies cocoanxits flourish even in the interior of the islands and at a con- siderable elevation—2,000 feet. They require an abund- ance of water at their roots. Mangoes were introduced into the West Indies towards the end of the eighteenth century, and to-day they are the commonest trees —the reason being that the seeds germinate readily and at once take root in almost any soil. The trees will grow even at elevations of 5,000 feet, but they do not bear fruit above y,500 feet, nor do they bear at all in wet districts. There are numerous varieties, most of them being somewhat fibrous, even the esteemed "No. 11" containing some thread-like fiber. In the year 1869 several of the best grafted varieties of India were imported from Bombay for the Botanic Gardens of Jamaica; these are of superior excellence and without fiber. The seedlings of these Bombay mangoes do not come true, but the majority of them bear good fruit. Grafted plants are distributed from the various botanic gardens of the West Indies. Experi- ments in budding are being carried on with a view to bud the numerous inferior kinds. Even the co
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