. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XVIII. No. 456. BARBADOS, OCTOBER 18, 1919. Pkiox Id. CONTENTS. 1 Paob. Pao«. Aerial Mail Service, Flagstaff at Ke« 329 Indo-Burmiv 353 Fniit Culture in Malay* 329 Animals, Wild 329 Gleanings 332 Botany, The Fundament- Horse Marmalade ... 325 als of 334 Industrial Instruction for British Guiana, Recent Girls 334 Exports fium 323 Insect Notes ;— Cacao and Coco-nuts in 'Entomology' 330 Uominica 327 Popular Entomology ... 330 Oa,s
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XVIII. No. 456. BARBADOS, OCTOBER 18, 1919. Pkiox Id. CONTENTS. 1 Paob. Pao«. Aerial Mail Service, Flagstaff at Ke« 329 Indo-Burmiv 353 Fniit Culture in Malay* 329 Animals, Wild 329 Gleanings 332 Botany, The Fundament- Horse Marmalade ... 325 als of 334 Industrial Instruction for British Guiana, Recent Girls 334 Exports fium 323 Insect Notes ;— Cacao and Coco-nuts in 'Entomology' 330 Uominica 327 Popular Entomology ... 330 Oa,stilloa Rubber .33£ Items of Local Interest ... 324 Cotton : — Labour and Emigration 32f> American Cotton 331 Land .Settlement, , Origin of Sea Island in Antigua 328 Cotton 326 Limes, Budded 327 Sea Island Cotton Market Reports 3.'!i> Market 326 Salt and the Growth of Cotton Factory. Tortola 333 Coastland Plants ... 321 Departmental Reports ... 333 Sands. Mr. W. N. ... 328 Dominica, Report on ... 323 West Indian Products ... 335 Salt and the Growth of Coastland Plants. LARGE proportion of the cultivated land in the West Indies lies around the sea- «^_, ^„^ coast. On it we find cultivated, sugar- cane, cotton and coco nuts principally, and growiag wild, down to the margin of the sea, a well-defined flora of salt-loving or salt-tolerating plants which — botanists include under the general term of halophytes The soil in which these plants grow—not only the true halophytes but also the cultivated crops— periodically become impregnated with salt. It may, therefore, prove interesting to consider the relation of salt to the growth of halophytes, and the cultivated crops mentioned The coco-nut forms an interesting study in this connexion, for this plant will ;vte considerable quantities of salt; and at the same time thrive equally well in its absence. The widespread belief that the coco-nut needs salt for its development is unfounded. Copeland
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