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appended, and it appears to show that the amount of rain has a 

 striking influence on the total crop for each year. 



J. H. HART. 



Jariuary 1st, 1895. 



Circular Note No. 16. 



During 1894 the Logwood trees growing on the boundaries of the 

 Queen's Park were culled of dead and dying wood. The cleaned dye- 

 wood from this cutting has recently been sold, and has realized prices 

 26/- above the quoted prices of best Jamaica wood, and nearly equalling 

 best Honduras and Nicaragua marks, selling, as it did, at £7 16 per 

 ton in Amsterdam, 



The attention of planters has been called to the excellence of this 

 product as grown in Trinidad on several furmer occasions, and T would 

 again mention that there appears no reason why Trinidad Logwood 

 should not become as famous in the future as Trinidad Cacao. 



Logwood is essentially a poor man's cultivation, as it requires no 

 capital to commence Avith ; all that is required to start is to put out 

 two or three hundred plants into ordinary land and leave them to 

 themselves. Logwood however, responds to cultivation as well as 



