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common names. If this were done it would not only 
centre the interest of the visitors, but initiate a fixed 
nomenclature to be applied to all vegetables cultivated 
in British Guiana. 
The utility of the Agricultural or Horticultural Exhi- 
bitions is to give him an opportunity of observing the 
qualities of the various varieties of each species. 
By taking the prize variety as the standard, and criti- 
cally studying the other varieties of the same species, the 
agriculturist may then determine how he may adopt 
measures to enable him to cultivate and reap in a profi- 
table way a whole crop equal to, or better than, the prize 
exhibit. 
By this means an acre so cultivated will give a better 
return in money if the price is low than an inferior crop 
at high price. 
One variety of bitter cassava is said to give more 
starch, pound for pound of raw roots, when manufactured, 
than other varieties. This being the case, the planter has 
to discover by experiment if this particular variety, when 
planted on the soil he occupies, will produce more starch 
from a whole acre, or bed, than the other varieties ; these 
others might turn out a much greater weight of roots 
per acre than this particular variety mentioned above 
and thereby overtop the yield of starch per acre or 
bed. 
We may add that the variety must be chosen to suit 
the kind of soil, whether the vegetable be cultivated for 
the root, fruit, or leaves. . 
There is a very exhaustive paper on the plantain in 
in the Kew Bulletin of August 1894, which is worthy of 
being read, 
