. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 164 THE AGKIUULTUKAL NEWb May 31, SEYCHELLES: ANNUAL REPORT ON AGRICULTURE AND CROWN LANDS EOR THE YEAR rgjj. This report by Mr. ?. B. Dupont, Curator of the Botanic Station in the island of Mahe, the chief island of the group, has recently been rece'ved- As usual it contains matter of con^'iderable interest, especially to West Indian agricultutists, seeing that the climatic and soil conditions of that group of islands are very similar to those in the West Indies : especially, does the comparifon hold good b
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 164 THE AGKIUULTUKAL NEWb May 31, SEYCHELLES: ANNUAL REPORT ON AGRICULTURE AND CROWN LANDS EOR THE YEAR rgjj. This report by Mr. ?. B. Dupont, Curator of the Botanic Station in the island of Mahe, the chief island of the group, has recently been rece'ved- As usual it contains matter of con^'iderable interest, especially to West Indian agricultutists, seeing that the climatic and soil conditions of that group of islands are very similar to those in the West Indies : especially, does the comparifon hold good between Mahe and the more mountainous islands, such as Dominica and St. Lucia. It seems that, as has been found to be the case in Domin- ica, the mangosteen (G'arnnia maiifjostana) and the durian (Durio zibethinus) the well known East Indian fruit trees, are more at home on the hills than in the low country, though both of these trees have fruited in the year under report. Another interesting tree, the seeds of which were introduc- ed from Java in 1912, has also produced ripe fruit at the Botanic Station in 1917. This is Sandericum radiat/n», belonging to the same order of plants, Meliaceae, to which the mahogany also belongs, but unlike the latter it bears a large fruit of the diameter of nearly 3 incbe.«, which contains a sweet pulp inside, arranged somewhat like that ot the mangosteen or the West Indian star apple (Chrf/.wpht//l>iiii. cainito). Besides producing an edible fruit, Mr. Dupont states that it is an excellent shade tree, with a dense head, and very ornamental, owing to the fact that the old leave,-* turn red before falling. It may be mentioned that another species of the same genu.», the fruit of which is also edible, although reported to 1 e of a somewhat un|)leasant odour, is grown in the Botanic Gardens at Dominica. Another tree of great economic importance was intro- duced during tl e year through the United States Department of Agriculture; this is the a
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