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LIQUEDES 



In that department, our exhibits attracted equally 

 the favourable attention of the several juries. The 

 liqueurs and spirits contributed by Mr. Martial were 

 well esteemed and will but improve with age. 



The aerated waters and sparkling lemonades of 

 Messrs. Baissac and Pochard and of Mr. Watson, 

 sweeter than the Indian made lemonades, were highly 

 appreciated by the natives of India, who are very fond 

 of all sorts of sweet drinks and confectionary. 



FIBRES 



The very fine and almost complete collection of 

 fibres, scientifically arranged in the alphabetical order 

 of their Latin names, exhibited by the Botanical 

 Gardens, met with due attention. 



The number of fibrous plants growing in Mau- 

 ritius is somewhat considerable and not less than 119 

 varieties were represented in the Collection from the 

 Botanical Gardens. Most of them, had no mercantile 

 value ; but, on the other side, fine samples of fibres 

 from the aloes, manilla hemp, the pine apple. New 

 Zealand flax &c. &c., were well represented. That 

 collection, was only inferior to the one exhibited in the 

 Economic Court of India. 



Strange to say, no specimen of China grass and 

 of the Rheea fibre, or vegetal silk, was represented, 

 although a few years ago, a serious trial of them had 

 been made in the island, which proved unsuccessful, 

 only by the difficulty of getting the bark separated 



