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Affiliation: Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. 
Botanical investigation 1s carried on at the College, but the 
Garden is maintained for agricultural experimentation. 
Grenada 
DEVGRORGE (ST. GEORGES) 
BoTANIc GARDENS 
Windward Islands, B. W. I. 
Established: 1886. Area: 26 acres. 
Directors: (Present title, Superintendent of Agriculture) 
1. William R. Elliott (1886-1889) 
Charles M. Murray (1890) 
George Whitfield Smith (1890-1894) 
Walter E. Broadway (1894-1904) 
R. D. Anstead (1904-1909) 
Gilbert Auchinleck (1909-1914) 
John Chisnall Moore (1914-1919) 
R. O. Williams (1919-1921) 
9. W. O’Brien Donovan (1921-1929) 
10. K. T. Rae (1929-1931) 
11. W. O’Brien Donovan (1931- ) 
Serves as a public park. Open free to the public daily, from 
6 am. to 6 pm. Source of mcome: Annual appropriations by 
the Island Government. Library: Reference, a section of the gen- 
eral library of the Department of Agriculture. 1500 volumes. 
igh A biniuin: 400 specimens. Arboretum. Note: “ Until 1906 this 
arden was conducted by a Curator from Kew, but that.year an 
Agricultural Department was created, with a qualified and expe- 
rienced agriculturist at the head. At present the gardens are 
hardly botanic in a scientific sense, but are chiefly ornamental and 
used for the propagation of economic plants. The Department 
uses spare corners for minor economic experiments.” 
CoN OOS Corks 
Jamaica 
KINGSTON 
GOVERNMENT Botanic GARDENS 
Established: 1857. Abandoned for lack of Legislative appropria- 
tions, Re-established 1871. 
