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upon which prizes shall be offered; the communications to be 
sent to the Secretary by the 15th of November 1826: 
“1. The progress and present state of agriculture in Ja- 
maica or in the other West India colonies. 
“2. The progress and present state of horticulture in Ja- 
maica or in the other West India colonies. 
«© 3. New methods by which the culture or preparation of 
the present staples of the island may be improved. 
“4. ‘The diseases of horses, mules, oxen, and sheep in the 
West Indies, and the means of curing them. 
“<5. The diseases of cultivated plants in this climate, and 
the modes of preventing and of checking them. 
“6. The natural history of the insects, birds, and other 
animals, most destructive to vegetation, and the most effec- 
tual means of hindering or counteracting their ravages. 
“*7. The most ceconomical modes of irrigating flat and 
mountainous lands, with the least waste of the nutritious par- 
ticles of the soil. . 
** 8. The most ceconomical and effectual modes of draining 
marshy soils. 
~ 9, Any valuable medical property in plants hitherto un- 
known. 
‘10. The preparation of wine from the vine (Vitis vinifera), 
and of vinous liquors from other fruits, in the ‘Tropics. 
*© 11. Descriptions of plants not previously known, or known 
imperfectly, with their botanical characters, and with speci- 
mens of each plant described, if practicable. 
“12. The most advantageous modes of grafting in the Tro- 
pics, with an account of the plants on which these modes have 
been successful. 
** The Society shall likewise offer prizes for the following ob- 
jects: 
**13. Improved specimens of esculent vegetables and fruits, 
whether native or foreign, raised in this island. 
**14, ‘The introduction of any new and valuable plants, or 
esculent vegetables, or fruit. Specimens of each to be accom- 
panied with an account of its history and cultivation. 
“15. The best specimens of wines made within the Tro- 
pics, from the vine or from other fruits. Not less than three 
bottles of each sort of wine to be sent. 
**16. To such persons of free condition, whether of colour 
or black, and male or female, as may, through his own indus- 
try, have put the cottage he has inhabited, with a garden at- 
tached to it, into the neatest condition, a premium not exceed- 
_ing two doubloons. 
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