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at large. I would recommend that the services of the Curator of 
the Botanic Station be again utilised to visit the outlying ae 
at frequent intervals, and to give oe es and demonstrations 
the treatment of the soil, the best methods of cultivation, ae 
curing the produce. The ‘advantages of aes a plan have already 
been clearly shown, and just now ‘they would be of the greatest 
value in assisting to es the chief industry of the Colony in 
an effective conditio 
BOTANIC STATION. 
[A full description of the Botanic Station at Grenada appeared 
in the Kew Bulletin, 1891, pp. 149-152. The station was started 
in 1886. Itis situated about a mile to the eastward of the town 
of St. George by road ; but may be reached by water by a much 
above the garden boundar e locality was described by a 
former Governor (Sir Walter Sendall, K. ‘good site, 
The objects of this garden were stated as follows : 
“To introduce and distribute plants of great ee ecco value, to 
supply practical hints respecting new promising industries, 
and to develop prov isting minor industries.” The 
first Curator was Mr. iott, from the Jamaica Gardens, 
who took charge in March, 1886. To him is due the credit for 
laying out the permanent Eross of the pon garden and 
planting the principal trees now co ntained in it. Mr. Elliott 
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in charge. In addition to the pine Gar den, he is sunday 
for the Government House Grounds, the ata A of the Morne 
ae Estate and Quarantine Station, of the mangrove shores of 
he lagoon near the Botanic Station, and of the apout Lands. In 
hie report for the year 1896 Mr. Broadway affords ample evidence 
of the service prre to the agricultural interests of the island 
by the Botanic Statio 
Attention was drawn to a fine variety of orange, believed to be 
peculiar to Grenada, and hence called the Grenadine orange. 
t is a fcbust grower, and the fruit larger than the 
ord sweet orange, with a thick rind and abundant juice. It 
oo that it would be an acceptable fruit in foreign 
