nures of any kind are available, a good
application at the time of planting will effect wonders in accelerating
the growth of the young plants.

Where the necessary protection is assured, the young seedling planted
out as above recommended should start at once, without check of any
kind, into vigorous growth.

The nursery-grown subject receives an unavoidable setback. Its roots
have been more or less mutilated and, as we may not prune the top
sufficiently to compensate for the root injury, it is generally several
months before the equilibrium of top and root is fully restored. In
most cases, by the end of the second year, it will have been far
outstripped in the growing race by the former.

The history, habits, and characteristics of the cocoanut tree indicate
that it needs a full and free exposure to sun, air, and wind; and,
as it makes a tree, under such circumstances, of wide crown expansion,
these indispensables can not be secured except by very wide planting.

Conventional recommendations cover all distances, from 5 to 8 meters,
with quincunx (i. e., triangular plantings) urged when the 8-meter
plan is adopted. But the writer has seen too many groves spaced at
this distance in good soil, with interlacing leaves and badly spindled
in the desperate struggle for light, air, and sun, ever to recommend
the quincunx, or any system other than the square, at distances not
less than 9 meters and, in good soils, preferably 9.5 meters.

The former distance will allow for 123 and the latter 111 trees to
the hectare. They should be lined out with the greatest regularity, so
as to admit at all times of cross plowing and cultivation as desired.

From this time forward the treatment is one of cultural and manurial
routine.

Annual plowings should not be dispensed with during the life
of the plantation. These plowings may be relatively shallow,
sufficient to cover under the green manures and crops that are made
an indispensable condition to the continued profitable conduct of
the industry. Nothing is to be gained by the removal of the earliest
flowering spikes. Flowering is the congestion of sap at a special point
which, if the grower could control it, he would wish to direct, in the
case of young plants, to the building up of leaf and wood. Cutting the
inflorescence of the cocoanut results in profuse bleeding and, unless
this be checked by the use of a powerful styptic or otherwise, it is
doubtful if the desired end would