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friend Sir J. P. Grant started the culture of other plants 

 besides the coffee in the Island. He came and spent a 

 couple of days at my house at Kew before he went out. with 

 the view of getting all the information he could that might tend 

 to increase the value of the vegetable resources of the Island. 

 Except the United States, there is no country in the world 

 where the teaching (practical) of tropical produce is so effi- 

 ciently taught as in Jamaica, certainly no other British 

 Colony. 



He was constantly on the alert to seize some point where 

 better organisation would mean better progress. After 

 reading [Sir D.] Morris's 1 account of West Indian matters in 

 1902, he notes (July 6) : 



Under Agricultural Institutions, p. 78, I find no fewer 

 than five Agric. and Hortic. institutions in Jamaica alone, 

 besides Fawcett's Garden Bulletin, and the West Indian 

 Bulletin. Could not these, or some of them at any rate, be 

 combined ? As it is, they must entail a lot of waste of time, 

 material and expense of housing and administrative work. 

 The burden of botanical, horticultural and agricultural 

 literature is becoming insupportable the costs of binding 

 and space occupied in shelves are hideous, for all that one 

 gets 99/100 of the pages are never referred to. 



The history of tobacco in the Island is told in a letter to 

 Dr. Fawcett of October 15, 1905. 



Thank you much for your letter of the 13th ult. and the 

 box of excellent cigars, which Mr. Arthur Farquharson has 

 been so good as to send me. Please thank him cordially 

 from me, and tell him that I believe I was the ' Deus ex 

 machina ' through whom the manufacturing of tobacco 

 into good cigars was introduced into Jamaica. 



1 Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G. (b. 1844). He was educated at Cheltenham, 

 the Royal College of Science, South Kensington, and Trinity College, Dublin. 

 First-class honours Natural Science, Gold Medallist ; Assistant Director of Royal 

 Gardens, Ceylon, 1877 ; Director of the Botanical Department, Jamaica, 1879 ; 

 Assistant Director of Kew Gardens, 1886-98. He went on special missions to 

 the West Indies, Bahamas, &c., and was instrumental in furthering trade and 

 agriculture in the West Indies, and published many papers on the subject. 

 Adviser in Tropical Agriculture to the Colonial Office, 1908-13. Resides at 

 Boscombe, and is President of the Bournemouth Horticultural and Natural 

 Science Societies. 



