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(7) a tennis court, 
(8) a small and very unsightly block of native huts, 
near the sea, erected by the late owners for the Garden 
labourers, which should be removed if the Garden is 
restored as at present they are a great eyesore. 
(9) There is also the Garden Inspector’s house, No. 9 
on the map, and a small seed-drying house (10). : 
The buildings, as may be supposed, have suffered a good 
deal from neglect, but, as they are well built, it should not 
prove very costly to restore them to their former condition 
and make them valuable Laboratories and Offices and a School 
for carrying out the research and educational work of the 
ardens. 
In connection with the Garden at Victoria some experimental 
plots had been made at Buea at elevations of 3400 ft. and upwards 
_ on the slopes of the Cameroon mountain. These now come 
under the manager of the Government ‘Farms at Buea and it 
was here that experiments were made and are still continued, 
in the growing of every kind of vegetable cultivated in European 
gardens. The.stock farm for cattle and pigs is also situated at 
Experimental plots of Tea and Cinchona had been made at 
Buea, and these though very neglected and now considerably 
choked with rough grass and bushes prove that both these 
economic plants are amenable to the conditions at 3400-3600 ft. 
on the slopes of the mountain. The Tea plants are in two 
plantations and the bushes of a somewhat pyramidal shape are 
now some 10-15 ft. high, many of them being in flower and 
fruit at the end of February. The Cinchonas are slender trees, 
densely smothered at the base with rank growth and are some 
20 ft. high and evidently of several varietal forms, hybrids 
apparently of C. succirubra and C. Ledgeriana.* Neglected as 
they are, they have grown fairly well, and it seems evident that 
the cultivation of Cinchona might be a practical proposition. 
(Plate IT., figs. 3 and 4.) 
At Buea or at some other mountain station it should be 
possible to grow Potatoes successfully and produce a supply 
which would be of great value both to the Cameroons and 
Nigeria. It might be found possible with careful selection to 
grow a strain of potatoes without the necessity of getting out 
fresh ‘seed’ from home, but experiments, which should certainly 
be undertaken, will be needed in order to see how far this may 
be possible. 
It also appears probable that at higher elevations—5000 to 
6000 feet—in the Bimenda region the experimental cultivation 
of wheat might be undertaken. It would also be desirable to 
establish a low country station in connection with the cultiva- 
* See Deistel, Government Gardener, Tropenpflanzer Oct. 1905, 
No. 10, where particulars of the sources of these plants are given. : 
