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Item The Amani Plantations: An Account of some of the more interesting Horticultural Features to be seen at the East African Agricultural Research Institute, Amani, Tanganyika Territory(1948) Fernie, L.M.Amani is situated on the eastern slopes of the Eastern Usambara Mountains in Tanganyika Territory, latitude 5.06° south, longitude 38.38° east. It is about fifty miles distant by road from the port of Tanga. The whole area of the Institute occupies some 750 acres, of which approximately 500 acres are devoted to the plantations, the remainder being under tropical rain forest. The altitudinal range is from 1,300 feet to 3,700 feet approximately, and in consequence most of the plantations are sited on excessively steep slopes. The laboratories, staff residences, and village are built on the crests of a series of ridges at an altitude of approximately 3,000 feet, while the nursery occupies the flat land in a river valley.Item The Amani plantations: An account of some of the more interesting horticultural features to be seen at the East African Agricultural Research Institute, Amani, Tanganyika Territory(1948) Fernie, L.M.Amani is situated on the eastern slopes of the Eastern Usambara Mountains in Tanganyika Territory, Latitude 5.06o south, longitude 38.38o east. Its is about fifty miles distant by road from the port of Tanga. The whole area of the Institute occupies some 750 acres, of which approximately 500 acres are devoted to the plantation, the remainder being under tropical rain forest. The attitudinal range is from 1.300 feet to 3,700 feet approximately, and in consequence most of the plantations are sited on excessively steep slopes. The laboratories, staff residences, and village are built on the crests of series of ridges at altitude of approximately 3,000 feet, while the nursery occupies the flat land in a river valley.Item Preliminary Trials on the Rooting of Clove Cuttings(1946) Fernie, L.M.; East African Agricultural Research InstituteThe clove is a notoriously difficult subject to propagate vegetatively. Grafting, with varying degrees of success, is reported from Amani, Orissa, and Zanzibar; Ridley (1912) states that it can be propagated by layers; the only report of the successful rooting of cuttings comes from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (1938)(Feilden and Garner, 1940).Item The preparation of nursery beds and the sowing of coffee seed(1950) Fernie, L.M.Every endeavour should be made to give coffee plants a good start in life. The first step in achieving this aim is by careful attention to the preparation of the seed beds, and to the sowing of the seed and subsequent care of the young plants,Item The Rooting of Softwood Cuttings of Coffea Arabica(Taylor & Francis, 1939/1940) Fernie, L.M.; Coffee Research and Experiment Station, Lyamungu, Moshi, Tanganyika TerritoryAt this station the rooting of softwood cuttings has proved to be the most successful method of vegetative propagation of Coffea arabica. Under favourable conditions over 75 per cent of those originally set in the propagating frames have rooted by the end of six months. Thus it is considered that the time has arrived to set out in full detail the technique employed, although, no doubt, there will be minor modifications as further experience is gained. The technique here described is that worked out to suit the conditions at the Coffee Research Station, Lyamungu, which is situated on the southern slopes of Kilimanjaro (latitude 30 S.) at an altitude of about 4,400 ft. The yearly rainfall shows great variation, the wettest months usually being April and May, when most of the year's rainfall occurs. There in a cool season after the long rains up till August, after which month the temperature can be expected to rise, reaching its peak in the hot dry months from January to March, when the aridity is great. The short rains are due about November, but are unreliable. It should be emphasized that the technique set out below will not necessarily apply to all coffee districts, with their varying climatic conditions.Item The Vegetative Propagation of Cich Na by cuttings(1947) Fernie, L.M.; AmaniIn all perennial crop plantations where propagation by seed is the normal practice, considerable variation in material is evident, and in this respect cinchona is no exception. An alternative method is to use vegetative Woo pagation, by which means the desirable characters of the parent plants can be perpetuated and uniformity obtained. An added advantage is that a fully developed plant is usually obtained in less time than when raised from seed, though Owen [16] considers propagation by cuttings to be slow and uncertain and never likely to be as popular as by seed. But Kreyer [12] rather surprisingly states that sexually reproduced cinchona trees are said to give considerably higher yields than those reproduced vegatively.Item The Vegetative Propagation of Cinchona by Cuttings(1947) Fernie, L.M.In all perennial crop plantations where propagation by seed is the normal practice, considerable variation in material is evident, and in this respect cinchona is no exception. An alternative method is to use vegetative propagation, by which means the desirable characters of the parent plants can be perpetuated and uniformity obtained. An added advantage is that a fully developed plant is usually obtained in less time than when raised from seed, though Owen [16] considers propagation by cuttings to be slow and uncertain and never likely to be as popular as by seed. But Kreyer [12] rather surprisingly states that sexually reproduced cinchona trees are said to give considerably higher yields than those reproduced vegetatively.
