Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1901 — Protecting Tonne Cocoa Trees. [ARTICLE]

Protecting Tonne Cocoa Trees.

A traveler in South America, where the cocoa tree is largely cultivated, speaks of the great care with which the young plants have to be protected from the sun, which If very strong is fatal to them. To 'secure this protection the planters shield them by banana trees and plalntain trees, the broad leaves of which give them the needed shade. And even when they are fully grown they need protection, which is given by trees known as “immortels,” or, as the planters call them, “the mother of the cocoa.",. Thus the whole cocoa plantation has a sort of canopy.