plants, and tanks for aquatics. Elevation CO feet. Annual mean 
temperature 79° Fah. ; average rainfall for 28 yearn is 35.16 inches. 
" 5. Botanic Garden at Bath, is the old Botanic Garden of the 
Colony, established in 1779 ; it is still maintained for the sake of 
its valuable trees and palms, though much reduced in size. 
Elevation 170 feet. Temperature 78° Fah. 
"6. King's House Garden and Grounds, four miles from 
Kingston, contain about 177 acres, of which about 20 acres are kept 
up as an ornai bed to the official residence of the 
Governor. Many valuable economic plants ami fruit trees are also 
vation, as well as the rarer tropin] palms and orchids. 
WO feet. Annual mean temperature 78.4° Fah.; average 
rainfall for 18 years is 48.20 inches. 
"The history of this Department is intimately connected with 
the various vicissitudes through which the island has passed, and 
S 1 ™; 5 S had lt8 P eri0ds of depression no less than those 
ot comparative prosperity. 
^£v 6C i tl ^ and + indireC 1 tly during the last hundred years the 
Botanical Department has been the means of introducing and 
t P he P S mg S T e .° f th \ m08t ^™Me plants, now the sources of 
the staple products of the island, and its work in this resoect is 
being strengthened and increased year by /ear 
child*,!? w riki ? g fa ? th , at with the exception of pimento-' that 
^abtcut 1 wiM r ed f fr T ° t ?" Part8 0f the globe WhTe oTtMs 
Garden (Lijuanea* and is n™ one J l?* 6 * * U *' East ' 8 Botanic 
island (c). The plentiful l£*Z^J? a ^ *** iT *°* ™ the 
from Honduras by Dr Barham I § nZ g . ^f^^ was introduced 
Am&riccmm: in ml rX ^ a 1 Botam8t 5 the author of ' Hortus 
" W "^ »™* ^4,' 8fti% in., p . 3ra , 
