. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XV. No. 371. BARBADOS, JULY 15, 1916. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Bay Tree us a Cmp Plant Book Sholf Bougainvillaeas, Hybrid ... Britisli Cotton Gi'owing Association (jassava Roots, Composi- tion of Coco-nuts in Difierent Countries, Notes on ... Cotton Conference:— Fifth Day's Proceedings and Conclusion Department News Dominica Legislative Coun- cil, Address to Dominica Water, Report on (Samples of Gleanings Ground-Nut Oil
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. A FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW OF THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST INDIES. Vol. XV. No. 371. BARBADOS, JULY 15, 1916. Price Id. CONTENTS. Page. Page. Bay Tree us a Cmp Plant Book Sholf Bougainvillaeas, Hybrid ... Britisli Cotton Gi'owing Association (jassava Roots, Composi- tion of Coco-nuts in Difierent Countries, Notes on ... Cotton Conference:— Fifth Day's Proceedings and Conclusion Department News Dominica Legislative Coun- cil, Address to Dominica Water, Report on (Samples of Gleanings Ground-Nut Oil .. ... Honduras, Agricultural Con ditiuns in Lime Juice, Concentration of Live Stock, Co-operative Insurance of 228|Marlread of 235 S(.rils, Steam Sterilization of 230 Sponges, Demand for 227 Sugar Industry:— I Sugar-cane Experiments 233 in British (iuiana ... Thyniol Production in the 2341 West Indies and Florida Tilth, Measurement of ... 22'.liWest Indian Products ... 24(1 2:{2 . 235 233 234 238 235 231 225 233 23!) 232 226 233 232 23!t The Bad Germination of Seeds. CORRESPONDENT recently com- plained of the bail germination of some imported vegetable seed, and is inclined to attribute the matter to the oftccts of fumigation. This idea of the ill-effects of fumigation is by no means an uncommon one, but it is (juite unfounded, for the reason that imported vegetable seed is seldom fumi- gated, and even if it were, the methods employed would not injure the seeds to any serious extent. The causes of bad germination are to be found in other directions, and their consideration here will not be inopportune in connexion with the matter referred to above. At the outset it must be borne in mind that the effect of a tropical climate on the seed of temperate plants is injurious to their vitality. Only freshly imported seed, therefore, may be expected to germinate satisfactorily. Even the seed of the onion, which is a sub-tropical plant, will not retain its vitality for more tha
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