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OCCASIONAL NOTES. 165 
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somewhere in the month of May last year that my attention was 
called to the fact of there being several plants in a field of ra- 
toons, which the Superintendent pronounced as having grown from 
the seed of the cane arrow. On first examination, I thought it was 
a mistake ; they bore so close a resemblance to guinea grass when 
it grows from seed; but as there was not any of this kind of grass - 
growing on or near the field in question, I could not account for its 
presence there, and this circumstance caused a stri€ter examination on 
my part, the Superintendent all the while declaring positively that they 
were veritable canes. After being satisfied myself that they were really 
canes, I caused all that could be found to be removed and transplanted 
to another field, but in consequence of the weather being very dry I 
could only save seven plants of them, and these are now alive and are 
growing. I intend having the plants from these put in one spot by 
themselves this year, hoping to obtain seed from them again. The 
field on which they grew is in that part of the estate which runs 
down a hill into Scotland; the soil is very moist, and is composed of 
clay, siliceous sand and chalk, and had been the year previous thoroughly 
tilled, and was in what we planters eall ‘fine heart,” that is in a 
finely divided and pulverised state. The parent canes were very vigo- 
rous, and there were severai varieties growing together in the field. It 
appears as if there are seed from three kinds growing—the Bourbon, 
Transparent, and native ; that is, the plants which are growing have 
the appearance of these at present. I would also remark that these 
plants were not found growing in one spot, but were scattered over a 
space of more than half of an acre, and grew up wherever the trash did 
not cover the land thickly. Any further information that you or any 
other gentlemen might require concerning the above, I should be most 
happy to afford, as far as I am able, or to show the plants as they now 
stand, 
JAMES W. PARRIS, 
Samuet J. Prescop, Eso., 
Editor of the Liberal, 
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Pirara and the Savannah Region.—Mr. C. A. LLOYD 
has just returned from the Brazilian frontier, where he 
Spent several months among the Macusis and Arecunas, 
