1922.\ THE BBEAD-FRUIT IN THE WEST INDIES. 22& 



then practically ceased to exist until 1890, when, at the instance of 

 Sir Daniel Morris, it was re-established on an entirely new footing, its 

 main object now being to propagate and distribute economic plants for 

 cultivation by planter and peasant. 



" This it has done, and is doing, most effectively, and it is not too 

 much to say that the success which has attended the development of the 

 system of peasant proprietorship in St. Vincent has been due to the care 

 and devotion shown by successive Curators of the Botanic Station to the 

 requirements of the people. The establishment of the system dates from 

 1897, and one remembers the howl of indignation with which its 

 inception was received by the larger estates' proprietors ; but none 

 would, one ventures to assert, now deny that it has proved a conspicuous 

 success." 



A Case for Young Plants. 



Seeds of the Bread-fruit and Mangoatan were to he aown in noil in a case Hie 

 this. As soon as the plants fjrowing from it were six inches in hei'jht they were 

 to he shipped in the case overseas. Note the movable shutters uhirh could he 

 lowered when desired to enable the plants to get the henejit oj rain or dew. 



