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tlie Imperial Commissioner are the cultivation of cotton, the 

 improvement of the sugar cane by hybridisation, and the exten- 

 sion of the culture of limes, cocao, &c. With regard to cotton, 

 Sir Daniel revived its cultivation after a lapse of about 100 years, 

 and personally introduced the Sea Island seed— the best long- 

 m iple cotton— into the islands. The cotton from the West Indies, 

 especially that from St. Vincent, now obtains as high a price as 

 any in rue Manchester market. The experimental work on the 

 sugar cane carried out by the Imperial Department of Agriculture, 

 has been instrumental in giving a fresh impetus to sugar cultiva- 

 tion, which at one time appeared to be a doomed industry. At 

 th- Agricultural Conference, held in January last at Barbados. 

 Sir Daniel was able to say that—" It is not improbable that in the 

 near future seedling canes capable of resisting disease, while at 

 the e me time yielding a higher percentage of sugar, will be 

 generally cultivated in these colonies." 



One of the most important features of his administration has 

 been the establishment of the intercolonial agricultural conferences, 

 seven «>t' which have been held during the ten vears of his tenure 

 of office. These have been of great value in bringing together the 

 agriculturists and leading men of the various islands, and have 

 helped to co-ordinate the work and stimulate agricultural interests 

 in the different West Indian Islands. 



In Sir Daniel Morris the West Indies are losing one who has 

 given his best for the improvement of the conditions of the 

 riffl nS has handed on to his successor, Dr. Francis Watts, 

 I U.(t., D.8c.-4he Superintendent of Agriculture for the Leeward 

 Islands— a well-organised and thoroughly efficient department. 



Gkor B Nicholson.— After a long and painful illness our 

 teemed Inend and former colleague passed away peacefully on 

 Sunday, September 20, in his sixty-first year. The son of a 

 nurseryman of Ripon, Yorkshire, he grew up in a garden, and 

 early develop*., I a taste for flowers and for gardening. As a child 

 ne had a plot of ground assigned to him to lay out and cultivate as 

 ne pleased, and in those early days he showed great skill, we learn, 

 in constra^ins nuniaturo villas in their own tastefully planned 

 gardens. He also former! » 8m»n ™„i. «.„,i_ „„,i kiiu-i.~i u 



with a fountain engineered by himself. 



,.„ f , n . i TTT , , ' umiseir. witn increasing years ne 



i v,?h lit T? , kno ?r led ^ e of the Plants in his surroundings, 



r P ^ 1V h k and . wdd ' and he made a special study of hardy 



nam. f ™n> "^ gained for him the not undignified nick- 



trl m l a $ U T™?' , Hi8 ed » c *tion was of the ordinary 



^ammar school" kind, and he began working in his father's 



211TTT l^ 8t ™ ^ Uite y° un §' ^mailing there until 

 fxZZZl ' At l - U ^ the de8ire t0 se * m °re ^d gain wider 

 nn^l^f A?" lrre ^ ble ' ™* he worked successively in the 



oTcTaXr sssjftiasiM? ^^ — *~* ^ 



^ . . t - _ _ — . where 



municipal 



During the time 



knowUH w rrr 1 ?\ France he laid «" foundation of a 

 knowledge of the French language, to which he was continually 



