. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. GO THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. I'euruaey 19, -^^^^^ GLEANINGS. In the St. Lucia ( for the ?22nd ultimo, there is published a list of plants, with prices, that will be on sale at the Botanic Station during the present year. For exported plants, the sale prices will be 50 per cent, higher than those given in the list. Notification has been made that the next International Rubber and Allied Trade Exhibition will be held at Olympia, in May or .June 1911. For further particulars, application should be made to t
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. GO THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. I'euruaey 19, -^^^^^ GLEANINGS. In the St. Lucia ( for the ?22nd ultimo, there is published a list of plants, with prices, that will be on sale at the Botanic Station during the present year. For exported plants, the sale prices will be 50 per cent, higher than those given in the list. Notification has been made that the next International Rubber and Allied Trade Exhibition will be held at Olympia, in May or .June 1911. For further particulars, application should be made to the organizing manager, Mr. Staines Manders, , Chancery Lane, London, " In the A'jriculturnl yeics, Vol. VIII, p. 300, attention was drawn to the fact that plans were being made for the establishment of an English scheme for producing beet sugar in Linc'jlnshire. It is now stated that these have failed, but there are hopes of a revival of them in the near future. The Colonial Report for .Jamaica, 1908-9 (Xo. 62(3) contains the following statement: The standard of teaching in the primary schools appears to be gradually improving, and much greater attention is being given to elementary science, agricultural teaching, and manual training, than formerly. An official announcement has recently been made that an exhibition to be known as the (irand Exhibition of .Japan will be held in Tokio from April 1 to October 31, 1912. The exhibition will cover an area of about 292 acres, and all foreign Governments and peoples are invited to take part in it. The following points of a good sample of broom corn are given in the Jlhodesian Affricitltiirn/ Jonrnnl for December, 1909: length of fibre not less than 14 inches; length of butt, not more than 4 inches. The fibre should not be coarse or stiff; it .should be tough and flexible, not brittle; the colour should be pale with a green tint throughout. The report of the Curator of the Botanic Station, Mont- serrat, for December 1909, sh
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