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chasers in the best methods of penoa; pruning, and shading 
the various economic plants establis y them. ‘Such a 
“and failure in the case of hundreds of acres now being 
“ energetically, but unwisely, cultivated.” 
278. From yer position and character the development of the 
Crown lands in St. Vincent must always present considerable 
itati 
lty. 
all existing roads. They are often on steep hill slopes, difficult 
of cult ia in and liable to be washed away during exceptional 
rainy seasons. road is now in course of being made into some 
of the Crown lands, and it is proposed that instruction shall be 
methods 
services of the Curator of the Bot tanic.;Station have hitherto been 
given in this direction, but it is now Becca to provide 
instructors regularly devoted to this wor 
UNPRODUCTIVE PRIVATE LANDS. 
279. There is another side to this question. There are 
unable to cultivate them. “ It is difficult,” as Sir Charles Bruce 
remarks, “to force the action of the a tats of great estates,” 
but it is inevitable that some measures must be taken to utilise 
Some portion at least of the large ike now unprofitable, and 
place them under such cultivation as will save the people from 
actual starvation. 
