. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 124 THE AGKICULTUEAL NEWS. Ai'uiL U, A company for the manufacture of paper from bamboo fibre has been started in Trinidad. The niachinerj- for this enterprise was due to arrive on Fridaj-, !March '2, by the ' Grenada.' The factory is to be at Gasparre Island, wliere a suitable property has been rented. GLEANINGS. The Agricultural Instructor at Nevis reports that the Aerniotor erected at Richmond Lodge has given satisfaction in the preliminary trials in ginning cotton and grinding foodstuffs, in spite o


. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 124 THE AGKICULTUEAL NEWS. Ai'uiL U, A company for the manufacture of paper from bamboo fibre has been started in Trinidad. The niachinerj- for this enterprise was due to arrive on Fridaj-, !March '2, by the ' Grenada.' The factory is to be at Gasparre Island, wliere a suitable property has been rented. GLEANINGS. The Agricultural Instructor at Nevis reports that the Aerniotor erected at Richmond Lodge has given satisfaction in the preliminary trials in ginning cotton and grinding foodstuffs, in spite of rather intermittent action due to light winds and occasional squalls. The Curator at Dominica reports that close on 2,000 budded plants of lemons, Washington Navel oranges, and grape fruit have already been cirdered for delivery, locally, at the close of this year. The pros^iects of the orange industry in the island are distinctly favourable. Mr. J. Jackson, the Curator of the Botanic Station, Antigua, in a recent letter to the Imperial of Agriculture, rejiorts that Bougainvillaea glahra, var. cypheri, growing at the Botanic Station, has developed an exceedingly fine sj'ort, the colour of which is magenta. Efforts are being made to propagate it. According to the new West Indian Produce Association, whose headcjuarters are at Fenchurch Buildings, London, , it is recommende<l to 'smoke imperially ' as well as 'think imperially.' It is announced that West Indian , and especially the well-known and highly appreciated ' La Tropical' and ' Golofina ' and other brands, are on sale br the Association at reasonable rates. A fine specimen of the Immortel {Eri/thriiia uinhrom), .so well known in Trinidad as a shade tree for cacao, is now in flower in a garden in Belleville, Barbados. It is a hand- some wide-spreading tree about 50 feet in height, and just now, when, owing to the prolonged dry weather, everything is dry and burnt up, this Immortel tree with it


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