. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 428 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 29, 1916. EDITORIAL. NOTICES. — Barbados. Letters and matter for publication, as well as all Hspecimens for naming, should be addressed to the 'Commissioner, Imperial Department of Agi-iculture, Barbados. All applications for copies of the 'Agricultural News' and other Departmental publications, should be addressed to the Agents, and not to the Department. The complete list of Agents, and the subscription and advertisement rates, will be found on page 3 of iihe cover. Imperial Commis
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 428 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. July 29, 1916. EDITORIAL. NOTICES. — Barbados. Letters and matter for publication, as well as all Hspecimens for naming, should be addressed to the 'Commissioner, Imperial Department of Agi-iculture, Barbados. All applications for copies of the 'Agricultural News' and other Departmental publications, should be addressed to the Agents, and not to the Department. The complete list of Agents, and the subscription and advertisement rates, will be found on page 3 of iihe cover. Imperial Commissioner of Francis Watts, , , Agriculture for the West Indies , SCIEKTIFIC STAFF. ? Scientific Assistant and Assistant Editor W. R. Dunlop. Entomologist H. A. Ballon, Mycologist W. Nowell, CLERICAL STAFF. ?Chief Clerk Assistant Clerk Clerical Assistants Typist Assistant for Publications A. G. Howell. M. B. Connell. ("L. A. Corbin. J P. Taylor. Miss B. Robinson. A. B. Price, Fell. Journ. Inst. Agricultural ^tm ^ . ' — ? " — Vol. XV. SATURDAY, -lULY 29, 1916. No. 372. The American Papaw and the Tropical Papaya. According to the Journal of Heredlti/ for July 191(i, the American papaw is known botanically under the name of Asimina triloba, belonging to the family Anonaceae, which includes the custard apple. It is stated that so little is the papaw known that its very name has been stolen from it and applied, through a confusion in sound, to the tropical papaya (Carica Papaya). While this double use of the term is unfortunate, we fear that as its employment in connexion with Papaya is world-wide, there is little chance of even the United States ever gaining a monopoly of its use in connexion with their northern species of fruit. The article in ijuestion gives an interesting account of the papaw tree, which, in appearance, reseuibles very much a cacao tree. But the papaw thrives under temperate conditions, and is not in any s
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