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The report was made at the close of the year and ordered to lie 
on the table. Nothing farther, however, appears to have been 
done for the Garden till 1810, when the sum of V_3(H) was • voted 
for the improvement of the Garden at Bath and for the services 
of a Botanist,' This sum. afterwards reduced to £200, was placed 
in the hands of the members of St. Thomas-in-the-Kast. Portland 
and St. David, by whom it appears to have been administered 
down to the year 1852. when the Garden was transferred to the 
Board of Directors of the Bath of St. Thomas the Apostle. The 
late Mr. Nathaniel Wilson was appointed Curator of the Garden 
in 1817, and devoted many years, often labouring under great 
discouragements, in maintaininu r and improving the Garden and 
introducing new plants. His yearly reports contain sullieient 
evidence of the value of the Garden, small as it was. to an island 
and assisted and encouraged hv the Bev. Thomas Wharton, 
Mr. Wilson laboured most successfully in the propagation and 
< fibre ' resources' of" the' colony." '"" ' ' ' ' ' ''' 
« In 1857 a grant was pass, d by the Legislature for purchasing 
19 miles from' Kin-ston'. and sn'ps were a! o'neeYaken t. .'establish 
"Writing in 1861 Mr. Wilson referred to the successful intro- 
duction of seeds of the valuable eiiede.ua Tree to Jamaica, ' through 
the liberalitv of the Briush Government and recommendation of 
Sir W. J. Hooker of Kew.' Bv the month of October, ISt',1, 
Mr. Wilson reported that he had -over iOO healthy plants .piire 
ready for planting out.' As the climate of Bath was unsuitable 
for the successful growth of cinchona, by the kindness of the late 
Dr. Hamilton, they were tried at Cold Spring Coffee Plantation, 
St. Andrew, at an elevation of 1,000 feet. Here Mr. Wilson found 
' the climate and soil to be all he could desire, and as it afforded 
every facility for carrying out so valuable an experiment he at 
once availed himself of it, and planted out in the coffee fields, on 
the 16th November. 1 st'l . several plants of each species, then about 
2 and 21, inches in height. In twelve months after a plant of the 
red bark (Ciw:h»na Snrrirubrn) had attained to the height of 
11 inches, with leaves measuring 13^ inches long by 8f inches 
broad. The same plants in December, 1863, i.e.. when two years 
old, measured six feet in height, with 10 branches, having a 
circumference of stem at a base of 4\ inches. 
" In 1862-63 a grant was made for the salary of an Assistant 
Gardener to Mr. Wilson, and Mr. Robert Thomson, formerly of 
Kew, received the appointment. 
"The Garden at Castleton was then finally established and 
ultimately, by the influence of Sir John Peter Grant, the Govern- 
ment Cinchona Plantations were op. ned in 1 No's, and placed under 
the management of Mr. Thomson, who. on Mr. WiUm's retirement, 
had been appointed Superintendent of the Botanic Gardens. 
"The export of cinchona bark from the Government Plantation 
to the 30th September, 1881. was 73,533 pounds of the value of 
£16,327. There was no exportation in 1885. A consignment 
