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THE PLx\NT WORLD. 



dens at Kew. Seven years after the government made its first 

 grant in aid of the garden of Mr. East at Gordontown, one of 

 Admiral Rodney's captains seized a French ship bonnd from 

 Mauritius to Haiti, both then colonies of France, on board which 

 were found a large number of living plants. These were brought 

 tc Kingston and turned over for the new garden, where they were 

 set out with the original tags, on which were not names but num- 

 bers. Among the lot were many trees of economic importance 

 which had never before been grown in Jamaica, notably the 

 mango, the jack-fruit and the cinnamon. " Tree No. ii " proved 

 to be a very delicious variety of mango which is known to this 

 day in Jamaica as the Number Eleven. 



In 1863 the desire of Governor Sir John Peter Grant to see 

 what might be made out of the cultivation of Peruvian bark (the 

 cinchona or quinine tree of the Andes), at higher elevations in 

 the r)lue Mountains, led to the establishment of the Hill Gar- 

 dens, which for many years continued to be the headquarters of 



Fig. 29. At the centre of the Garden. The spreading tree is the Royal 



Poinciana. 



