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The damage done by cane borers to the stools and roots of the 
canes was very marked in passing through the cane fields, both in the 
yellow colour of the leaves and the lack of vigour of the plants in 
fields badly attacked. It seems probable from specimens preserved 
in the offices of the Imperial Department of Agriculture that the 
beetle which is reported to be doing so much damage to sugar canes 
in Mauritius occurs in Barbados and may have been carried from the 
West Indies, but in Barbados apparently the damage which can be 
traced to its larvae is not very appreciable. 
he sea coast of Barbados on the N.E. by Bathsheba is of con- 
siderable beauty and affords a striking contrast to the main mass of 
the densely cultivated portion of the Island, 
Tue Winpwarp IsLAnps AND DomINIGA. 
On the outward journey Trinidad was reached on January 16th 
in the morning. The view of Trinidad and of the Bocas Islands 
with the outline of the Venezuelan mountains dimly seen through 
the early morning mist has often been described and is of remarkable 
beauty. The day was spent in Port of Spain where we were met 
on arrival by Mr. Freeman and in the course of the day I met most 
of the Officers of the Department and of the Board of Agriculture. 
After being very kindly received by His Excellency the Governor, 
I visited the Botanic Gardens with Dr. Watts, and later in the 
afternoon embarked on the R.M.S. “ Balantia” for the Northern 
Islands. Owing to the kind arrangements made by Dr. Watts I 
was able to utilise the short time available in each island to the best 
advantage. 
GRENADA. 
Grenada was reached soon after six a.m. on Wednesday, 
January 17th, and Mr. Auchinleck took me across the bay in the 
overnment cutter to the Botanic Garden. The situation of 
_ St. George’s, with its almost circular harbour is one of the most 
beautiful in the West Indies. The Botanic Garden is a charming 
spot prettily laid out and contains many fine specimens of exotic 
trees and palms. Here, as elsewhere, in West Indian Botanic 
Gardens the visitor receives a shock to his ideas about geographical 
distribution until he realises that the native vegetable products are 
almost unrepresented and that the plants around him have largely 
come from the Tropics of the old world. Kew no doubt is largely 
answerable for this condition of affairs and though by her intro- 
duction of the finest products of the Hast she has certainly added 
enormously to the beauty of West Indian gardens, yet one cannot 
but feel that the neglect of the native vegetation is to be regretted. 
An addition to the Grenada Botanic Garden in the shape of a 
ermit. Not only is the garden a charming spot both by reason of 
purpose as a centre for the growing of economic plants for distri- 
bution. One small tree is kept as a home for scale insects and their 
