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    The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines
    The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines
    The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines
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    The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines

    By William S. (Scrugham) Lyon

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      The Cocoanut With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines - William S. (Scrugham) Lyon

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      Title: The Cocoanut

      With reference to its products and cultivation in the Philippines

      Author: William S. Lyon

      Release Date: October 7, 2010 [EBook #33844]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE COCOANUT ***

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      Bureau of Agriculture.

      Farmer’s Bulletin No. 8.

      The Cocoanut

      With Reference to Its Products and Cultivation in the Philippines.

      By

      William S. Lyon,

      In charge of Division of Plant Industry.

      Manila:

      Bureau of Public Printing.

      1903.

      Contents.

      Page.

      Letter of transmittal4

      Introduction5

      History5

      Botany6

      Uses6

      Copra and cocoanut oil6

      Coir10

      Tuba12

      Minor uses13

      Cultivation14

      Selection of location14

      The soil16

      Seed selection17

      Planting18

      Manuring21

      Irrigation27

      Harvest28

      Enemies28

      Remedies29

      Renovation of old groves30

      Conclusion30

      Letter of Transmittal.

      Bureau of Agriculture,

      Manila, June 1, 1903.

      Sir: In responding to numerous inquiries about the cocoanut, its uses, cultivation, and preparation for market, I have prepared, by your direction, the accompanying bulletin, which is intended to cover the general field of the inquiries addressed to this Bureau, and herewith submit the same, with the recommendation that it be published as Farmers’ Bulletin No. 8.

      Respectfully,

      Wm. S. Lyon,

      In Charge of Division of Plant Industry.

      To Hon. F. Lamson-Scribner,

      Chief Bureau of Agriculture, Manila.

      The Cocoanut.

      Introduction.

      The following pages are written chiefly in the interests of the planter, but the writer feels that the great agricultural importance which the cocoanut palm is bound to assume in these Islands is sufficient to justify the presentation of some of its history and botany.

      For that part of the bulletin which touches upon the botany of the cocoanut I am indebted to Don Regino Garcia, associate botanist of the Forestry Bureau; for that relating to its products and local uses, to the courtesy of manufacturers in Laguna; and, for the rest, to personal experience and observations made in Laguna Province and in the southern Visayan Islands where, as elsewhere in this Archipelago, the cocoanut may properly be considered a spontaneous and not a cultivated product.

      History.

      The legendary history of the Prince of Palms,¹ as it has been called, dates back to a period when the Christian era was young, and its history is developing day by day in some new and striking manifestation of its utility or beauty. It seems not unreasonable to assume that much of the earlier traditionary history of the cocoanut may have been inspired as much by its inherent beauty as by its uses. Such traditional proverbs Or folklore as I have gathered in the Visayas recognize the influence of the beautiful, in so far as the blessings of the trees only inure to the good; for instance, He who is cruel to his beast or his family will only harvest barren husks from the reproving trees that witness the pusillanimous act; and, again, He who grinds the poor will only grind water instead of fat oil from the meat.

      To this day the origin of the cocoanut is unknown. De Candolle (Origin of Cult. Plants, p. 574) recites twelve specific claims pointing to an Asiatic origin, and a single, but from a scientific standpoint almost unanswerable, contention for an American derivation. None of the remaining nineteen species of the genus Cocos are known to exist elsewhere in the world than on the American continent. His review of the story results in the nature of a compromise, assigning to our own Islands and those to the south and west of us the distinction of having first given birth to the cocoanut, and that thence it was disseminated east and west by ocean currents.

      ¹

      The Prince of Palms, Treloar.

      Botany.

      The cocoanut (Cocos nucifera Linn.) is the sole oriental representative of a tropical genus comprising nineteen species, restricted, with this single exception, to the New World.

      Its geographical distribution is closely confined to the two Tropics.¹

      Not less than nineteen varieties

      of C. nucifera are described by Miquel and Rumphius, and all are accepted by Filipino authors.

      Whether all of these varieties are constant enough to deserve recognition need not be considered here. Many are characterized by the fruits being distinctly globular, others by fruits of a much prolonged oval form, still others by

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