A FLYING TRIP TO JAMAICA. 



ON BOARD THE SARNIA A WORD CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA ITS 

 DISCOVERY, FORMATION, ABORIGINES, NOMENCLATURE, RAINFALL, GOVERNMENT AND 

 LOCATION INFORMATION FROM THE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE A VISIT - TO 

 CASTLETON GARDENS SOMETHING ABOUT THE RUBBER PRODUCED THERE AND THE 

 CONDITIONS ATTENDING IT HOPE GARDENS HEVEA AND CASTILLOA THE MILK 

 WITHE. 



JAMAICA peaceful, fertile, rich in cheap, free labor, and close 

 to the United States through location and language, will some 

 day, perhaps very soon, be an exporter of India-rubber gathered 

 from annual crops. The beginning of experimental planting may be 

 even before this book goes to press hence the story of the island, briefly 

 told. 



KINGSTON STREET, KINGSTON. 



I had long wished to visit it and see for myself how it sized up 

 as a place for planting rubber. This wish was intensified when Pro- 

 fessor N. L. Britton, director of the New York Botanical Gardens, 

 leased the English tropical experiment station at Chincona, and assured 

 a future for American botanical work in which rubber can hardly be 

 ignored. I was more than glad, therefore, when my journeyings made 



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