The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . r<*eJ Marble-I. &^^. ** v ^.^ TOBAGO 6C) Stan-fords &eoarap faced. Sstdb ? GRENADA 247 which has largely increased in recent years. Except whenthe plants are young very little shade is used in Grenada,experience having shown that in this island cocoa does betterwhen protected from the wind, but exposed to the fullsunlight. Otherwise the methods of cultivation resemblethose followed in Trinidad and elsewhere {see page 451). Spicescome next in importance
The pocket guide to the West Indies, British Guiana, British Honduras, the Bermudas, the Spanish Main, and the Panama canal . r<*eJ Marble-I. &^^. ** v ^.^ TOBAGO 6C) Stan-fords &eoarap faced. Sstdb ? GRENADA 247 which has largely increased in recent years. Except whenthe plants are young very little shade is used in Grenada,experience having shown that in this island cocoa does betterwhen protected from the wind, but exposed to the fullsunlight. Otherwise the methods of cultivation resemblethose followed in Trinidad and elsewhere {see page 451). Spicescome next in importance, the shipments of nutmegs andmace being so considerable in quantity and so excellent inquality that the island is often called the Spice Island ofthe West. Nutmeg cultivation was first started by the lateHon. Frank Gurney on Belvidere—the estate owned by therebel Julien Fedon—in the early eighties, and rapidly , coco-nuts, and kola are also exported, and rubber(Hevea) cultivation is steadily increasing. Cloves growluxuriantly, but the knowledge of their preparation formarket has not yet been im
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