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form, very much as our “tannin extract” from chestnut is 
marketed. An unknown disease of the logwood, which spreads 
from one tree to another through the roots, causes considerable 
damage in some localities. 
On Saturday, January 16, Mrs. Murrill and I left Kingston at 
2:15 P. M. by train for Ewarton, arriving at 4 o’clock, and 
drove from there over Mt. Diabolo to Moneague, a distance of 
ten miles. The afternoon was perfect and the view from Mt. 
iabolo over the great plain of St. Thomas-in-the-Vale to the 
foothills a the Blue Mountains in the distance was one of the 
finest of its kind seen in the island. On the other side of the 
mountain we entered the parish of St. Ann, the largest and 
coolest parish in seinen often referred to as the “ Garden of 
Jamaica.” The hotel at Moneague is exceedingly well managed, 
and Mr. Sims, ve ona host, showed us much kindness during 
our stay of thre 
Collections were ie in the grove, gardens and pastures 
about the hotel, and in the virgin forests in the direction of 
Union Hill, at an elevation of from 1,500 to 2,200 feet. e 
geological formation is similar to that of the Cockpit Country 
and the elevation nearly the same, so that any considerable 
variation in the character of the flora was not to be expected. 
As a matter of fact, it proved to be largely identical with that 
or Troy and Tyre, with an oe of species found at Castle- 
ton Gardens and a few new eleme 
I was entertained at Union Hill - T. B. Sturridge, Esq., who 
rescued me from a heavy shower of rain and insisted upon 
my remaining with him to breakfast. He has a large coffee and 
pimento estate, with a splendid barbacue cut from the solid rock 
of the mountain top, having the appearance of a fortress. He 
showed me how the pimento was gathered, dried, fanned and 
stored in large sacks for the European market. This crop has 
no diseases and no enemies except the yellow-billed parrot, 
which wantonly cuts off the clusters of berries in a wholesale and 
very wasteful manner. Mr. Sturridge also gave me specimens 
of the native trap-door spider and its curious nest, a banana 
bird’s nest, made of’ dark vegetable fibers much resembling 
