Foreign Notices. — Jamaica. ISl' 



The following are more minute details : — 



In December, 1825, the Society proposed premiums for the best specimens 

 of fruits, flowers, white yams, cauliflowers, asparagus, and any other ap- 

 proved articles ,• the specimens to be the property of the person raising 

 them ; and if the person sending them were a slave, they were to be accom- 

 panied by a certificate from his master. — In August, 1826, prizes were ad- 

 judged for a new melon from Cephalonia ; for Botany Bay plants, the first 

 which have flowered in the island ; for beet roots, weighing from 9 to 

 11 lbs.; for potatoes; for arracacha ; for tobacco grown in Jamaica, and 

 segars made of it ; and for sorrel wine and ginger wine. A general invitation 

 for sending in fruits, vegetables, and flowers, for prizes, was then issued, as 

 well as for wax and honey. — In December, premiums were adjudged for 

 arracacha, for garden eggs [iSolanum Melongena?] produced from a graft on 

 the Susumber [?], one measuring 24 in. by 21^ in., and weighing 5 lbs.; also 

 for a new squash, called Commodore Porter, measuring 27 in. by 23iiR. ; 

 for bleached wax and honey, for Jerusalem artichokes, and unbleached 

 wax ; and to W. Harris, a slave on Clydesdale plantation, for potatoes. 



In January, 1827, a premium was given for specimens of various oils ; for 

 cabbages and turnips, to William Springfield, a slave on Radnor estate; and 

 for cabbages and potatoes, to Rankin Mac Clarty, a slave on Clydesdale 

 estate. — In April, 1827, premiums were awarded for yams, celery, halle- 

 lujahs [? Vol. II. p. 97.], strawberries, flowers, and wax. — In August, 

 1827, Thomas Kelly, a slave on Radnor estate, received a prize for oil 

 from Pindars [?], also for carrots; William Hamott, a slave on Clydesdale 

 estate, for potatoes ; and Prince Mac Clarty, a slave on the same estate, for 

 potatoes. — In November, 1827, prizes were given for quinces, the first 

 exhibited to the Society ; for flowers, yams, mangold wurtzel, and Jeru- 

 salem artichokes; for arracacha, to Edward, a slave on Chester Vale; for 

 turnips, to Thomas Kelly, a slave on Radnor estate ; for potatoes, to Sarah 

 Rattray, a slave on Clydesdale estate; for potatoes, to Alexander Mac 

 Clarty, on the same estate ; for potatoes, to Ned and Balcanes, slaves on 

 Chester Vale; for potatoes, to Rodney, a slave on Radnor estate; for cab- 

 bages, to'John Mac Clarty, a slave on ChesterVale estate ; for sweet potatoes, 

 to Elizabeth Eves, a slave on Carlisle estate. 



In January, 1828, a premium was given for introducing the Mikania 

 Gudco ; for a liquid preparation of pepper ; for cucumbers ; for mats made 

 of thatch, to Louisa Mac Cauley, a slave on Duplin estate ; and to Thomas 

 Kelly, a slave on Radnor estate, for vegetables and honey. — Y. B. AprillS. 



We are extremely obliged for the above communication, which we have 

 inserted at greater length than we are in the habit of inserting the transactions 

 of British societies, because we think by so doing more good may be done. 

 We perfectly agree with the writer, that nothing is better calculated to 

 ameliorate and humanise the slave or labouring population of Jamaica, or 

 any other country, than the comforts of gardening, and a taste for the 

 culture and knowledge of plants. — Cond. 



Mulberry, 0/ive, ^■c. — " Jamaica, ^Uh January, 1828. Sir, The mul- 

 berry thrives uncommonly well in the very warmest situations, and though 

 it has never, to my knowledge, flowered, attains considerable size. It is 

 now general over the country, and it is only to be regretted that we have 

 not yet succeeded in bringing the silkworm into the island. Besides the 

 mulberry, there is a tree, Ziziphus Jujuba, the leaves of which are employed 

 in feeding the insect in the East. We have plants of it in the Bath gar- 

 den [?j ; so that, independently of the mulberry, we could be at no loss for 

 food for the worms. 



" As for the oHve trees, none of the seed grew. I obtained two plants, 

 however, from one of the cuttings (the only one which reached me) you 

 were so good as to send. They are planted in the garden at Bath, and 

 promise very well. There cannot be a doubt, indeed, that the olive may 



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