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economic plants in experimental plots, and much useful work is 
being done not only in the way of testing different varieties, but 
also in providing plants for distribution. 
In the grounds of the Station is situated the building containing 
the Trinidad Herbarium, in which the late Mr. Hart took so keen 
an interest; and in the upper rooms the officers of the Board of 
Agriculture have their not very spacious headquarters. 
CONCLUSION. 
The account in the foregoing pages of Botanical and Agricultural 
enterprise in some of the West Indian Islands is of necessity but an 
impressionist sketch, the result of a hasty visit. Nevertheless, I 
venture to think that the impression of sound and useful work 
which I gained and which I have attempted to depict is a perfectly 
accurate one, 
In such a region as the West Indies where the problems awaiting 
solution are common to all it is clear that the only sure way to 
these officers is of the most varied character, and frequently of a 
type of which they have had no previous experience. I found them 
acting as buyers and sellers of cotton for Government, as teachers in 
‘icultural schools, curators of gardens, devisers of experiments, 
