In the mean time, the annual outlay during eleven years is an additional incubus upon the prime cost of the plantation, which, at the expiration of this term, may be reduced to one-tenth of its present value.
The cocoa-nut tree requires a sandy and well-drained soil; and although it flourishes where no other tree will grow, it welcomes a soil of a richer quality and produces fruit in proportion.

Eighty nuts per annum are about the average income from a healthy tree in full bearing, but this, of course, depends much upon the locality.

This palm delights in the sea-breeze, and never attains the same perfection inland that it does in the vicinity of the coast.

There are several varieties, and that which is considered superior is the yellow species, called the "king cocoanut." I have seen this on the Maldive Islands in great perfection.

There it is the prevailing description.
At the Seychelles, there is a variety peculiar to those islands, differing entirely in appearance from the common cocoa-nut.