. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 84 THE AGIllCULTUKAL NEWS. Maucii 21, 19' WEST INDIAN FRUIT. SPINELESS LIMES IN DOMINICA. The spitielef-s \ ,u itty of lime is beliL-\eil to have originated on the Sliawford Estate, Dominica. In the A (p'i cult urn I Nrwfi (Vol I, p. SS) it was mentioned that on this estate, in ]S!n. a lime tree was noticed without the usual spines. On sowing seeds from the fiuits of this interesting tree, some 75 per cent, of the resulting plants came ' true,' proving themselves to be spineles.'^. A plot was formed at the Bota
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 84 THE AGIllCULTUKAL NEWS. Maucii 21, 19' WEST INDIAN FRUIT. SPINELESS LIMES IN DOMINICA. The spitielef-s \ ,u itty of lime is beliL-\eil to have originated on the Sliawford Estate, Dominica. In the A (p'i cult urn I Nrwfi (Vol I, p. SS) it was mentioned that on this estate, in ]S!n. a lime tree was noticed without the usual spines. On sowing seeds from the fiuits of this interesting tree, some 75 per cent, of the resulting plants came ' true,' proving themselves to be spineles.'^. A plot was formed at the Botanic Station, and since that tin)e plants have been regidarly raised for distribution lu Dominica. At present it is stated that ,\bout 20,000 lime trees of the spineless variety are growing in the island, tliis being eiiuivalent to an area of 100 acres. Some particulars in reference to the ami growth of spineless lime trees wej'e given in the 1',)0-")-(i report on t'le Dominir-a Botanic Station, and reiiroducej in tlie ArjririiUiintI Xi'ii's (Vol. V, p. 276). The repoi't on the ISotanic Station for HK)()-7 inchules a paper, jirepared liy Dr. Watts, (' ., cimtaining a good deal of Inrthcr infor- mation on the subject. ;. With a view to comjiariiig the yields of juice and the percentage of citric acid in the Jiiiee, of the spineless and the ?ordinary varieties of limes, tests of the two kinds, grown as nearly as possible under similar conditions, have lieen made from time to time al the (loviinnient Lalioratory, .'\ntigua. The results of these tests go to show that while the fruit of the spineless lime is smaller than llmt of the onniiiny variety, a relatively larger yield of jnicc is obtained from the spineless variety, and this juice would appear to be pni'cr, as well as licher in acid, five examinations were niiide, at ditferent times, of fruits grown at the ]3otanic Station. The average amount of citric aciil in the juic« of the ordinary variety was 8'3
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