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intention to proceed, and I trust that this determimation will 
meet with your approbation and concurrence. 
“ Tt is exceedingly desirable for the purpose of exchanging with 
other Botanic Gardens to mutual benefit, that our native plants, 
whether timbers, dye-woods, drugs, fruits, or ornamental, should 
be cultivated. ‘To this end my attention is now directed, and 
my views have been greatly facilitated by the addition of the 
new piece of ground, so kindly granted to me by this hon. Board. 
It is now cleared and fenced, and I find it, both in soil and 
situation, adapted for the purpose I have in view. 
“T continue with success to propagate that useful spice, the 
Nutmeg, which I have no doubt will ultimately become one of 
the staple products of the Island. 
“Tam proud to say that it has fallen to my lot to introduce, 
within the last year, some of the most rare and valuable plants 
that ever were brought into Jamaica, including nearly all those 
I mentioned in my last report. Those of which I may truly 
boast are the Mangostan (Garcinia Mangostana), the Cinnamon 
(Cinnamonum verum), the Black Pepper (Piper nigrum), the 
vegetable Ivory, or Ivory-nut Palm (Phytelephas macrocarpa), 
the Longan (Huphoria longana), the Durion (Durio zebethinus), 
the Tonquin Bean (Dipterix odorata), the Gamboge Tree (Xan- 
thochymus pictorius), the Camwood of Commerce (Baphia nitida), 
the Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqua), the Wax Palm (Cerowylon 
andicola), three new fruits of the Grenadilla kind (Passiflora 
edulis, P. incarnata, P. Buonapartea), the Maltese and Manderin 
Orange, and many other noble and beautiful plants, to the 
number of eighty-six, which have themselves been only recently 
introduced into England, chiefly from the Tropics, and I need 
hardly say are calculated to thrive here. 
“For the cultivation of the Mangostan, which is reputed to be 
the very finest of Tropical fruits, and which will thrive best 
within the influence of sea air, Jamaica, from its insular nature, 
will doubtless be well fitted. The Durion, a fruit as large as a 
man’s head, is considered of first-rate excellence; the Longan, 
too, is much esteemed for the dessert; the Black Pepper is a 
spice admirably adapted for (and of easy) cultivation; the Cam- 
wood is a dye-wood of considerable value, averaging in the 
London market £16 to £18 per ton, while the Logwood obtains 
only £5 or £6. The others are better known, and need not be 
particularly mentioned here. 
“ While on this part of my subject it will be proper for me, 
Gentlemen, to call your attention, and that of the community at 
large, to plants hitherto much neglected, or at best partially 
