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quantity. The ‘soil was heavy, but good and deep; = locality 
was, nan exposed and suffered from the trade s for 
many months in the year. It was intended to alleviate? the Hho 
defect by e piehs a shelter belt of mango and other hardy trees 
to the north-east. The station at Clare Hall was at a later perio 
supplemented by two sub-stations, one at Body Ponds and another 
at Copse Cross, near Englis 
In 1891 it was decided, on the recommendation of the Governor, 
to appoint a scienti fic man as Superintendent of Agriculture, to 
at Skerrits ; to visit at frequent intervals the stations at Dominica, 
Montserrat and St. NETIS a e supervise all pean carried 
Institutions abroad for my ena and plants. Mr. C. 
A. Barber, F.L.S., late scholar of Cheats rae eni NiE nel Eia and 
Universi ty D emonstrator in Botany, was appointe the first 
Superintendent, y ge for the West rye in Meeg 1891. 
Tt was arranged he should first of all spend a short time in 
Visiting anay Pe eta at Jamaica, Di then merdi direct 
to Antig 
In ee pa on the Botanic Station at Antigua zA p62 
year 1891, Mr. Barber gave an account of the work don 
to that time. The area under cultivation at Clare Hall ae 
of five plots with an area of 44 acres. These were planted with 
fibre plants, fruit trees, grapes, etc. The work of propagating 
plants was abroad hindered by “the ce pei Bar that 
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Sisal hemp (Agave sisalana) sin A and p | out, also 
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results. Five thousand plants of = gape date were raised 
from seed supplied from Kew. The first of these fruited in 
August, 1895, when only 44 baie old (Kew Bulletin, Fe 
pp. 26-28). Particular attention was given to fodde 
of various kinds, mem oh Seradilla (Ornithopus cosines mew 
beans (Ceratonia Siliqua), Lucern, Lupins, Prickly Comfrey, and 
Teosinte (Reana lucurians). 
= -At Body Ponds, in the hilly district in the south-west, four 
patches of Crown land were cleared, amounting to about two 
