. 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. PORTO RICO PORTO RICO -1415 chocolate from 15 per cent to 50 per cent, according to quality; castor oil beans and other oil seeds 25 per cent; castor oil 35 cents per gallon; bay rum and bay water $ per gallon. Starch pays 13^ cents per pound, rice 2 cents per pound; while sugar pays yj^ cents per pound if
. 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. PORTO RICO PORTO RICO -1415 chocolate from 15 per cent to 50 per cent, according to quality; castor oil beans and other oil seeds 25 per cent; castor oil 35 cents per gallon; bay rum and bay water $ per gallon. Starch pays 13^ cents per pound, rice 2 cents per pound; while sugar pays yj^ cents per pound if not over No. 16 Dutch standard in color, and l-j^o cents per pound if above that standard. Labor. —Geu. Roy Stone in an article, "Porto Rico and Its Future," in Munsey's magazine for August, 1900, testifies from large experience to the effectiveness of the Porto Rican native laborers, and the writer con- siders them material for excellent gardeners, possess- ing as much quickness and natural intelligence as the better class of Hindoos he has employed for like labor in Jamaica. There are good opportunities in Porto Rico awaiting the capitalist and tlje horticulturist, for it is a field in which every dollar intelligently invested in tropical production is almost sure of a rich return. The island is abjectly poor to-day. It has but $3,000,000 for a popula- tion of nearly a million, and all of this but $600,000 is in the hands of the merchants and bankers, who will do nothing to develop the country. Authorities on Porto Rico. —Valuable works bear- ingon our subject are: AbuUetin, "Agriculture in Porto Rico," of the Department of Agriculture by Gen. Roy Stone, reprinted from the year book of 1898; a book on Cuba and Porto Rico by Mr. Robert T. Hill, and the full and informing volume of Mr. William Dinwiddie, "Puerto Rico, its Conditions and ; For statistics, see Bull. 13, section of Foreign Markets, U. S. Dept. Agric. on Trade of Puer
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