Abstract
THIS book is a welcome departure from the usual type of manual that deals in generalities about the plant concerned, with a fuller account of the methods of cultivation. Its author is to be congratulated upon having broken new ground, and it is by such study as is described in this volume that we may hope to arrive in time at a really scientific method of cultivating and treating the palm. Detailed scientific observations are given, for example, upon the numbers, the direction of growth, and the behaviour of the roots, a subject upon which we have usually had only vague generalities to go upon. Many other subjects are treated in the same way, e.g. the flowering, the relative proportions of flowers that set fruit, and so on.
The Coconut Palm: the Science and Practice of Coconut Cultivation.
By H. C. Sampson. Pp. xv + 262 + 40 plates. (London: J. Bale, Sons, and Danielsson, Ltd., 1923.) 31s. 6d. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 112, 321–322 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/112321c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/112321c0
