. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 36 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. February 11, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. SEEDLESS LIMES. The Hon. \V. H. Poiter writes from Dominica as follows in reference to seedless limes :— I observed in the A;//icicu/turid JVeics to learn that seedless lime plants are being propagated at the Botanic Station here from budwood suiiiilied from my property, where a vigorous tree of this description has recently been discovered, and .should a demand for plants arise it will doubtless be possible in a year or two to supply them in large nu
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. 36 THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. February 11, WEST INDIAN FRUIT. SEEDLESS LIMES. The Hon. \V. H. Poiter writes from Dominica as follows in reference to seedless limes :— I observed in the A;//icicu/turid JVeics to learn that seedless lime plants are being propagated at the Botanic Station here from budwood suiiiilied from my property, where a vigorous tree of this description has recently been discovered, and .should a demand for plants arise it will doubtless be possible in a year or two to supply them in large numbers, here as well as at Trinidad. DATE PALMS IN JAMAICA. The following note from the Annual Report of the Director of Public Gardens and Plantations in Jamaica refers to the collection of Algerian date palms at Hope Gardens, of which mention was made in the ^ Indian. Bulldla, Vol. V, pp. 147-8 :— The collection of date palms is in excellent condition. The plants have been regularly irrigated, and they have been constantly sprayed with Bordeaux mixture to stamp out the date fungus ((I'rnpliidla plioentris). The following numbers flowered from March to August 1903, all being females :— 182, lS(i, 187, 189, 191, 19-4, The following numbers flowered during February 1904, all being male plants:—Nos. 193, 196—(3 specimens). The flower clusters of the male [ilants have been .saved to enable us to pollinate any female flowers that may apjiear later in the year. A DISEASE OF CACAO. The following note on a disease of cacao trees (DiphxUa cacaoicola) appeared in the Bulletin of Miscclliineouf! Information, Trinidad, for January :— This name has been given to a destructive fungus which attacks the pods of Tlifobroma cacao and destro3"s them. It was found .some years since in some of the Windward Islands, but, up to a recent date, it had not actually been detected in Trinidad. A few weeks since, however, a pod was sent to this ofiice infected with
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