Puerto Rico and its resources . the tenth,and thereafter yield a constantly increasing cropfor a generation, at least. The better way is toplant the nuts in nurseries and transplant to rowsabout forty feet apart, or forty odd to the acre, whenthe plants are six months old. Good healthy nutsmust be selected, thoroughly ripened, and plantedin trenches about a foot apart, their stalk endsslightly elevated. So essentially is the cocoa theproduct of a maritime climate that when plantedfar from the sea a considerable quantity of saltmust be put in the holes if fine trees are desired. All other speci
Puerto Rico and its resources . the tenth,and thereafter yield a constantly increasing cropfor a generation, at least. The better way is toplant the nuts in nurseries and transplant to rowsabout forty feet apart, or forty odd to the acre, whenthe plants are six months old. Good healthy nutsmust be selected, thoroughly ripened, and plantedin trenches about a foot apart, their stalk endsslightly elevated. So essentially is the cocoa theproduct of a maritime climate that when plantedfar from the sea a considerable quantity of saltmust be put in the holes if fine trees are desired. All other species of palm grow here, most ofthem introduced, but some of them native. Themost noticeable of native species, is the gloriousroyal palm, which is indigenous here as well as inCuba. It dots the fields and stands in groups aboutthe houses, and has commercial as well as aestheticvalue, a full grown tree being worth at least tendollars for its lumber. Most of the native huts areroofed with the great, boat-like spathes of this palm,. A palm-tree bohio. SOME TROPICAL PRODUCTS. 51 which are sometimes six feet long and three huts, by the way, are called bohios, to distin-guish them from more pretentious houses, framedand tiled, which are known under the generic nameof casas. The palm spathes, which fall from thetree after the seeds are ripe, are pressed out flat, laidin rows over a framework of poles, and kept in placeby other poles tied loosely above them. A palm-tree bohio costs nothing more than the labour neces-sary to make it, assuming the trees to belong to theland on which it is built, and can be erected in aday or two. Another native palm, found farther up in thehills and mountains, is the beautiful oreodoxa, tall-est of the tribe, and which sometimes attains aheight of one hundred and fifty feet. All thepalms, and particularly this oreodoxa, are celebratedfor their cabbage, or terminal bud, which is adelicious morsel when divested of its outer wrap-pings and boiled
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