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“..., cassava, Indian corn, papaw, pigeon peas, to mention a few only, while a capital salad is made from the heart of the lofty cabbage palm (Oreodoxa oleracea). It is, how- ever, at dessert that the greatest surprises are forthcoming. Bananas, both big (Gros Michel) and dwarf (Musa Cavendishii), are known at home, but the very small fig banana, or Lady’s Finger, is not often seen out of the tropics, and, while all fruit of this description tastes infinitely better in its native home than in England or America, the latter kind are for flavour the acme...”
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“...BARBADOS 59 amounting to nearly 2000 acres. The Chinese . or dwarf banana (Musa Cavendishit) is also culti- vated, and about 40,000 bunches are now shipped from 100 acres of land. Manjak or glance pitch is exported from several mines near the College estate, to the extent of about 500 tons per annum. Petroleum has been proved to exist in Barbados, and the West India Petroleum Company has incurred considerable expense in boring for oil, but the industry has not yet been commercially developed. The financial position of the colony is shown financial by the following comparative table of the revenue PoBition' and expenditure, and the imports and exports, for the last six years :— Year. Revenue. Expenditure. Imports. Exports. 1900 . . ,£185,475 ,£176,982 ,£1.045,25. £919,011 1901-2 . . 179.973 .75,35° 1,031,679 950,175 1902-3 . . 161,585 194.346 872,679 592,464 1903-4 • ■ 180,831 176,309 821,618 552,891 1904-5 • • 185,056 .78,797 1,069,312 860,982 1905-6 . . 192,291...”
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“...ST. VINCENT 181 It also contains a large collection of plants of economic interest, besides those of an ornamental nature. It is one of the institutions under the control of the Imperial Department of Agriculture for the West Indies, and it serves as an efficient centre for the propagation and distribution of important industrial and other plants to local planters. To visitors from temperate climes, trees and plants, such as arrowroot, banana, cannon-ball, cinnamon, cocoa, clove, black pepper, bread-fruit, india-rubber, mango, mahogany, nut- meg, pine-apple, teak, traveller’s palm, vanilla, and various palms and ferns, can scarcely fail to be of interest. The Government Central Sea Island The Cotton Cotton Ginnery is situated within five minutes’Glnnery' walk of the landing-stage, and should certainly be visited. It is one of the best of its kind in the West Indies, being capable of ginning and baling upwards of 4000 lbs. of cotton lint per working day of nine...”
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“...294 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES The boucans have sliding roofs, which are closed over them when, as is often the case in the middle of the day, the sun is too powerful, or when it comes on to rain. When the cocoa is quite dry or “cured,” it is shipped in bags, each bag con- taining roughly i £ cwt. The Banana The only British West Indian colonies from ^ which bananas are now exported on a commercial scale are Jamaica, Trinidad, and Barbados. In Jamaica the industry has assumed enormous pro- portions, no less than 15,000,000 bunches being exported every 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 Captain Baker, the 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, and he found that they stood the journey so well, and were so much appreciated by his friends, that he...”
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“...WEST INDIAN INDUSTRIES 295 Jamaica to the United Kingdom. At first grave doubts were expressed as to whether it would be possible to bring the fruit successfully and in good condition to Avonmouth, Bristol, the terminal port, but with their characteristic enterprise Messrs. Elder, Dempster & Co., the owners of the line above referred to, overcame all difficulties, and installed Messrs. J. & E. Hall’s cool-air system in each of their ships, with the result that the quantity of fruit now lost on each voyage is infinitesimal. An increasing demand for Jamaica bananas in the mother country has developed with surprising rapidity, and a company known as Messrs. Elders and Fyffes now have no less than thirteen vessels bringing fruit to England from Jamaica and Costa Rica as fast as it can be carried. The Jamaica banana, which is the variety known Varieties of as the Gros Michel., is cut when the fruit is three- Bananas- quarters full, and consequently tourists must not...”
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“...296 GUIDE TO THE WEST INDIES in the West Indies when Père Labat visited the islands in 1696. The larger species was known ^ as the “ bananier ” and the small as the “ figuier.” He tasted both, but preferred the latter, which he described as “amie de la poitrine.” Unlike the Jamaica variety, which grows to a height of 20 ƒ feet, the Barbados banana tree does not exceed 10 or 12 feet. From Trinidad the principal kind of banana exported is the red banana, known in America as the “Aspinall,” which is every year becoming better known. Bananas require great heat, moisture, and a rich soil, with good drainage and high tillage. The cost of planting an acre in this fruit on land which, without high cultivation, would have otherwise produced nothing, is given by Mr. William Cradwick as follows :____ Forking first time . Suckers . Draining , . Forking second time Weeding twice £ s* d, • 300 per acre. . o 14 o ,, •500 „ * 200 „ . 100 „ £11 14 o Cultivation. The banana...”
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“.... Has a cloud-capped summit which looks like snow. Shaped like a snake, or was perhaps once infested with snakes. A mountain near Barcelona in Spain. Discovered on a Sunday. So numerous, that they brought to mind St. Ursula and the 11,000 virgins. British since Area in Scj- Miles. Population. Principal Industries. Imports. 1 Exports. Mean of five years. Cost of Land per Acre. Chief Town. COLONY. 1783 4.466 58,175 Sponge, salt, fruit, fibre .£301,760 1 .£202,735 16s. 8d. Nassau. The Bahamas. l6o5 v 166 199,542 Sugar, molasses, rum, cotton, banana, manjak 965,570 778,470 None Bridgetown. Barbados. 1803 1739 j IO0,OOo 7.562 278,328 40,327 Sugar, rum, molasses, cattle food, cocoa, coffee, rice, fruit, gold, diamond, timber Logwood, mahogany, fruit, rubber . . . 1,542,935 1,572,372 1,891,770 1,660,422 5d., 7^d. 4s. 2d. Georgetown. Belize. j British Guiana. British Honduras. 1655 4,207 639,491 Fruit, sugar, rum, coffee, dyewoods, pimento, molasses ,,801,710 1,803,070 & Kingston. i...”