. 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 cliocolate from 15 per cent to 50 per cent, accoriling to quality; castor oil beans and otlier oil seeds 25 percent; castor oil 35 cents per gallon; bay rum and bay water $ per gallon. Starcb pays IK cents per pound, rice 2 cents per pound; while sugar pays -^^ cents per pound if not over Xc. 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 cliocolate from 15 per cent to 50 per cent, accoriling to quality; castor oil beans and otlier oil seeds 25 percent; castor oil 35 cents per gallon; bay rum and bay water $ per gallon. Starcb pays IK cents per pound, rice 2 cents per pound; while sugar pays -^^ cents per pound if not over Xc. If, Dutch staiuhird in color, and l-^^; cents per pouiiil i:':ii"i. fMl)Or. — (:lvu I; I nil', "Porto Rico and Its Full M me for August, 1900, testifies i , :,.(.:.,, ,, In-effectiveness of the Porto Kuan iiatue ami the writer con- siders them material for excelleut gardeners, possess- ing as much quickness and natural intelligence as the better class of Hindoos he has employed for like labor There are good opportunities in Porto Rico awaiting the capitalist and the horticulturist, for it is a field in wliicli every dollar intelligently invested in tropical production is almost sure of a rich return. The island is abjectly poor to-day. It has but $3,600,000 for a popula- tion of nearly a million, and all of this but $(iOO,000 is in the hands of the merchants and bankers, who will do nothing to develop the country. Authorities on Poeto Rico.—Valuable works bear- ing on our subject are: A bulletin, "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 Dinwiddle, "Puerto Rico, its Conditions and ; For statistics, see Bull. 13. section of Foreign Markets, U. S. Dept. Agric. on Trade of Puerto Rico, 84 pp., by Frank H. Hitchcock, 1898. p.
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