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casional lectures to school teachers. Note: Under the same ad- 
ministration is the Union Experimental Station, of about 150 
acres, sources in 1929; plantations economic and ornamental. 
“The the agricultural department directs agricultural 
training in ihe primary schools, gives occasional lectures to school 
teachers, visits and advises planters and peasants on practical agri- 
cultural matters, conducts experiments in cultural methods on 
estates and at the experiment station, and raises and distributes at 
nominal charges such economic plants as are ue for estate 
planting, besides introducing and trying new plants.” A few 
native pupils are trained in practical agri-horticulture. 
St. Vincent 
KINGSTOWN 
St. VINCENT BoTANIC GARDENS 
Windward Islands, B. W. I. 
Established: 1764. Area: 62 acres. 
Directors: 
George Young (1766-1785) 
Alex Anderson (1785-1811) 
William Lochead (1812-1815) 
George Caley (1816-1822) 
Garden abandoned (1822-1890) 
Henry Powell (1890-1904) 
William N. Sands (1904-1919) 
Thomas P. Jackson (1919- 
Serves as a public park. Open free, daily, from sunrise to sun- 
set. Source of income: Annual as eae ce Colonial 
Government. Library: Reference only. Plantations: A general 
collection of tropical trees and plants. Pubichiene Annual Re- 
port. Established 1890. Published by Imperial Department of 
Agriculture for the West Indies. Affiliation: The Imperial De- 
partment of Agriculture for the West Indies. 
POLS iy are cr 
Tobago 
In the ea of Trinidad and pee Ce) a following 
statement appears: “ There is a Botanic Station . n Tobago, 
with similar ane to those of ne Beenie Gurae emai 
Trinidad, and administered in close connection with them.” (P. 
147.) This Garden has an important colleetion of economic plants. 
