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The demand for economic plants from the Botanic Station so far 
exceeds the supply 
As regards new industries the following are the most 
promising :— 
acao is being gradually extended, and is remunerative at the 
lowest price last year ; the peasantry are capable of growing cacao, 
provided they are taught how to cultivate it properly, and curing 
the produce. 
Liberian and Arabian Coffee; both these are successfully 
cultivated in a small way. Liberian coffee is calculated to be most 
valuable if extended on Ape ea scale. Arabian coffee is 
best for high elevations. 
Nutmegs grow extremely well, and yield good crops ; mixed 
with coffee and cacao in su uitable soils they should be ve 
remunerative. Trees are in bearing at the Botanical Station at 
six years old. 
Fruits might be very largely grown ; good sorts ee to be 
grafted and budded, especially oranges, grape fruit, &c., 
Further information respecting the resources of St. Lucia may 
be obtained from the following publications :— 
Harris, ©. Alexander. Description of St. Lucia (with list of 
exhibits). Handbook of Indian and Colonial Exhibition 
(pp. 90-97). London, 1886. 
Hooper, E. D. M. Report on the Forests of St. Lucia. Colonial 
Office, 1587. 
Cropper, R. P. Fruit Industry of St. Lucia. Kew Bulletin, 1888, 
pp. 185-187. 
McHugh, R.G. Handbook of St. Lucia. 1890. 
Morris, D. Botanical Enterprise in the West Indies, St. Lucia. 
Kew Bulletin, 1891, pp. 134-140.) 
me bts Botanic Station was started at Castries in ed The 
statio: o small for experimental cultivation, but it has done 
excellent Te in raising seedlings and distributing them all 
ver the island. e total cost of the station, including the 
ad of the curator, in 1896 was 3587. ; the gun received for 
16, 705 05 plants sold at nominal prices was 39/. About 4,000 pianis 
harge to pu ands. 
rown 
60,000 number of economic plants sold from 1889 to 1895 rae 
be cee for peedegd r cultivation either - in the neighbour- 
poe of Castries or Soufriere. If it were possible to work such 
an experimental station by means of labour supplied by a reforma- 
tory or industrial school, as in Barbados, there would arise the 
