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“... Michel) and dwarf (Musa Cavendishii), are known at home, but the very small fig banana, or Lady’s Finger, as it is called, is not often seen out of the tropics, and, while all fruit of this description has a much better flavour in its native home tiran in England or America, the latter kind is for taste the acme of perfection. Grape-fruit is on every well-regulated breakfast table, and oranges while actually green are exquisite, the West Indian tangerine variety being infinitely better than any ever seen at home. The grafted mangoes, for which Jamaica is especially famous, are exquisitely delicate in flavour, while a sound Antigua pine-apple, the cultiva- tion of which has, alas ! almost died out, is something to dream about. It is not long before the visitor makes the acquaintance of some of the following fruits, which are among the most popular in the West Indies: Custard-, mammee-, and star-apples, citrons, Barbados cherries, golden apples, granadillas (the fruit of the...”
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“... juice is now manufactured into what is known as Fancy Molasses, which is marketed in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. The area under sugar-cane culti- vation is about 74,000 acres, and taking 315 gallons of syrup as equivalent to a ton of sugar, about 50,000 tons of sugar are secured from half that acreage every year. The Sea Island cotton industry was revived in 1902 with success, and the acreage under this form of cultivation amounts to nearly 2,000 acres, from which about 900,000 lbs. of lint are raised. The Chinese or Dwarf Banana (Musa Cavendishii) was also cultivated for export when shipping facilities were available, and in some years before the Great War 40,000 bunches of bananas were exported from one hundred acres of land. Manjak or glance pitch was for some years exported from several mines near the College Estate to the extent of about 500 tons per annum ; but the best mines have now been worked out and closed. Petroleum has been proved to exist in Barbados, and...”
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“.... per acre, with very easy terms of payment. A few European settlers have in recent years been attracted to the island as cocoa and lime planters, and are already doing well. Sugar-canes, cocoa, coffee, nutmegs, limes, coco-nuts, and bananas thrive in St. Lucia, and the appliances for the manufacture of sugar are modern, there being no fewer than four large central sugar factories there. Bananas are being planted extensively, and the Swift Banana Company has given an impetus to this in- dustry. In recent years limes (Citrus acida var. medico) have also been widely planted, and the local lime industry promises to prove one of great value and importance. At Castries a factory for crushing limes for small growers was erected in 1913, and there is also a factory for expressing oil from coco-nuts and castor-oil seeds. Castries is an important mercantile coaling station, a fact to which St. Lucia owes its commercial import- ance, and a large section of the community makes its...”
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“... to the development of the agricultural resources of the island. In view of the rapid growth of the banana and lime industries, it is already probable that the name of St. Lucia will before long become more widely known in commercial circles. ST. VINCENT Y» - “ Pax et justitia.” The Colony’s Motto. St. Vincent, which lies in latitude 130 10' N. and longi- tude 60° 57' W., 30 miles to the south-west of St. Lucia, and 97 miles west of Barbados, is 18 miles in length and 11 in width .at its broadest part, and has an area of 133 square miles, being, like Grenada, about half the size of Middlesex. Its population is 44,447, while those of the Grenadines, which are its dependencies, have 4,115 inhabitants. The whole of the island is of volcanic origin, and, like St. Lucia and Grenada, it has a back- * An account of the gallant defence of the Diamond Rock is given in " West Indian Tales of Old." London : Duckworth and Co....”
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“... economic 1 plants besides those of an ornamental nature. Among t the trees and plants to be noticed are: Arrowroot I (Maranta arundinacea), banana (Musa sapientum), il cannon-ball (Couroupita guianensis), cinnamon (Cinna- i momum zeylanicum), cocoa (Theobroma Cacao), clove <{ (Eugenia caryophyllata), black pepper (Piper nigrum), li bread-fruit (Artocarpus incisa), india-rubber (Hevea 4 brasiliensis, Ceara, Castilloa, etc.), mango (Mangifera it indica), mahogany (Swietenia Mahagoni), nutmeg 4 (Myristica fragrans), pine-apple (Ananas sativus), teak [ (Tectona grandis), traveller’s tree (Ravenala madagas- a cariensis), vanilla (Vanilla planifolia). One old tree, it Spachea perforata, is the only specimen of its kind at S present known to botanists. The memorial temple and the fountain overlooking the lily pond, which is well } stocked with water-lilies, including the Victoria . Regia, jt was erected in 1915 in memory of the Hon. J. G. W. I Hazell, member of the Executive and...”
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“...286 POCKET GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES Gibraltar Rock, through which the railway to Ewarton passes by means of a tunnel half a mile long. The tourist should drive back to within three miles of Spanish Town-. Here he can embark on a punt on the irrigation canal— which, shaded as it is by coco-nut palms and tropical foliage, is of surpassing beauty—rejoining the car again within a short distance of Spanish Town. The whole trip occupies the best part of a day, though, of course, much less by motor-car. From Spanish Town a branch Of the Government Rail- way runs by a circuitous route to Port Antonio on the north side and towards the eastern end of Jamaica. The line runs up Bog Walk on the right bank of the Rio Cobre, crosses the island to Annotto Bay (see below) through large areas under banana cultivation to its destination. Port Antonio, on the north side of the island, 75 miles by train from Kingston, is the headquarters of the United Fruit Company of Boston, Mass. It is...”
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“... monuments to John Hodges (1787), a member of a well-known West Indian family, and James Blake (1753). From Falmouth to Montego Bay (see page 286) the distance is 22 miles. From Bog Walk on the Port Antonio line a branch line of the railway runs to Ewarton (17J miles, one hour). From there an enjoyable expedition can be made over Mount Diablo (10 miles) to Moneague, whence a drive may be taken through the famous Fern Gully to Ocho Rios and the Roaring River Falls. The road over Mount Diablo, or Diavolo, affords superb views of the Blue Mountains. Fern Gully is a natural gorge of surpassing beauty, with steep sides covered with ferns, through which a winding road runs towards Ocho Rios. Sir Harry Johnston described the gully, which he was largely instrumental in saving from vandal banana growers, in the following terms, to the writer: “ It is an amazing botanical exhibit, with about twenty-five different species of ferns, tree-ferns here and there at the top, ferns with...”
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“...JAMAICA 289 like curled wire or Carved green bronze, an epitome, in fact, of the fern sub-class.” Roaring River Falls is the largest waterfall in the island. The water descends in a series of foaming white cascades and is broken in its course by rocks, on some of which plants and palms have maintained a foothold. St. Ann’s Parish is deserving of more than a brief stay. Hollymount Hotel on Mount Diablo is itself well worth a visit; the views from it are of exceptional beauty. There are pretty walks through the forest amid orchids and ferns, and many butterflies, also parrots, parakeets, and other strange birds, are seen. After leaving Spanish Town, the main line of the rail- way proceeds through a fertile banana district to May Pen, the junction for the Clarendon branch. From there an expedition can be made to the ruins of Colbeck Castle, which dates from the seventeenth century. At Milk River, 13 miles from May Pen station and 12 miles from Clarendon Park, there is...”
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“...BRITISH HONDURAS 399 fully put under banana cultivation, but unfortunately the industry languished owing to the appearance of the dreaded Panama disease. Indications are not wanting that the valley is suitable for the raising of citrus and other tropical fruits. Now grape-fruit is being suc- cessfully cultivated in the neighbourhood. On the Rio Grande in the Stann Creek District some ancient pyramids faced with cut stone, filled with stone and brick and standing on a stone-faced platform, are preserved as historic monuments. They have been identified as relics of the ancient Maya civilisation and are now the subject of investigation by experts of the British Museum. In the Cayo District, near Benque Viejo, there are also some interesting ruins. Here there is a three-storied temple, the ground floor of which is still in a good state of preservation. Near it is a fine sculptured stele. An account of these ancient remains is given in the British Colonial Report...”
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“... refers to this incident in “ Westward Ho ! in which he describes with surprising accuracy—considering that he never saw it—the beautiful bay of Santa Marta, and the exciting episode of the capture of the rich galleon Santa Maria, and the carrying off of the Bishop by Amyas Leigh and his companions. Santa Marta is now an important centre of the banana industry. The town stands on the shore of a small land-locked bay, at the entrance to which there is a high conical rock called the Morro, surmounted by some ancient fortifications and a light- house. It has an ancient Cathedral, and an object of pilgrimage in the neighbourhood is the Hacienda where Simon Bolivar, the Liberator _ (see page 401) died on December 17th, 1830, which is now preserved as an historic monument by the Government of Colombia. Santa Marta has a pretty park and a promenade along the beach where rank and fashion congregate in the evenings. The offices of the United Fruit Company stand on what are believed...”
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“...SOME WEST INDIAN INDUSTRIES 443 Canada [see page 438) British West Indian cacao is given an ex- clusive preference of $2.00 per ioo lbs. in the Dominion. THE BANANA INDUSTRY. In Jamaica the banana in- idustry has assumed enormous proportions, no fewer than ’17,000,000 bunches having been exported in a year. The bulk ’of them go to the United States, and the development of the trade has been almost entirely due to American enterprise and capital. Many years ago the late Captain Baker, commander 'of a schooner trading between Jamaica and America, was in the habit of taking back to his native town a few bunches of bananas. He found that they stood the journey so well, and [were so much appreciated by his friends, that he decided to extend a business in this direction; and from such small be- ginnings has arisen the United Fruit Company, with its large ; fleet of steamers, one or more of which sail from Jamaica nearly jevery day to American ports with a full complement of...”