Vanilla culture in Puerto Rico (1948) (20381886608)
Summary
Title: Vanilla culture in Puerto Rico
Identifier: CAT31289489 (find matches)
Year: 1948 (1940s)
Authors: Childers, Norman Franklin, 1910-
Subjects: Vanilla; Orchids
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : U. S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
Digitizing Sponsor: U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library
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Figure 43.—A, Slugs can be disastrous in a vanillery. Feeding such as this at the base of the vine seriously weakens or kills the vine. Poison bait is pre- pared as demonstrated in figure 45 and distributed in about four pinches at the base of each vanilla vine as shown in figure 43, B. B, Dead and paralyzed slugs are shown on the mulch.