specially call attention. Therefore I quote the following
extract from Messrs. A. M. and J. Ferguson’s valuable work
on Coco-nut Cultivation concerning the growing of coco-nut
trees in brackish mangrove soil—!
“ The Penang Gazette observes— ‘ Coco-nuts growing in
mangrovQ soil on the side of creeks, more or less saturated
with salt, have their milk brackish, and the sap from which it
is secreted must be saline also. These trees do,not suffer
BREAKING COCO-NUTS FOR COPRA.
from the attacks of the rhinoceros beetle. Trees planted in
such a situation are found to bear much sooner than those
planted on a sandy soil.’ As an illustration of this, the
Penang Gazette states’ that ‘ while trees planted as far back as
thirty years ago in sandy soil have not yet borne fruit,
although they are fine-looking trees, other trees in the same
plantation, only ten years old, but planted on low ground,
where the sea-tide comes up daily, washes the roots and runs
