110 TIMEHRI. 
on the average of four crops, equivalent to 2°5 tons of all 
sugars per acre, while the new varieties produced as fol- 
lows :— 
Tons of all sugars per acre. 
No. 78 ... aa agen ae oo» 362 
No. 95... ae an ee cea an 
No, 102 ... eae au 5 os 2°63 
No. 74 ... = “a Sep scot ae ae 
No. I09 ... Len “a AS cs.) Core 
No. 145 «.. ae daa ieee anaes 
Noor rs \s. ove ee oe is< .) Bee 
No. 130 ... cas ae re ois gaan 
These results, obtained on land not well suited to the 
growth of the sugar cane, are strongly indicative of the 
value of this new line of research. 
From Queensland recently came a report of the high , 
value of a seedling variety grown from seed obtained in 
1889 from Barbados, and sown at Kew. From the pub- 
lished accounts this variety, which has been named 
“ Kewensis,” appears to contain about 15'7 per cent. of 
sucrose and to be of a prolific, heavy-yielding kind. 
In Java a variety, No. roo, has been obtained contain- 
ing about 15 per cent. of sucrose and of the future value 
of which considerable hopes appear to be entertained. 
During our investigations in this colony we have 
studied the peculiarities of growth and development 
which charaéterise new varieties of canes raised from 
seed. 
The principal of these are,—the very marked tendency 
to tillering charaéterising canes grown from seeds, which 
not unfrequently results in the produétion of stools having 
great numbers of canes in them, and the high glucose 
contents and low quotient of purity generally present 
