Abstract
WE learn that the Government of Jamaica offers a premium of £100 for the production of the best practical elementary text-book of tropical agriculture specially applicable to Jamaica, and embodying the first principles of agriculture. It is stated that the object of the manual is to create in the mind of the young an early and intelligent interest in the soil and its products, and particular attention is to be paid to simplicity, brevity, and freedom, as far as possible, from technical terms. It is stated that the propagation and cultivation of tropical economic plants should have due prominence. Manuscripts are to be forwarded to the Government of Jamaica on or before August 1, 1888.
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Notes . Nature 36, 499–501 (1887). https://doi.org/10.1038/036499a0
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