120 
acres, The plants cultivated were coffee, cacao, dates, Central 
American rubber, and vanilla. The object was to show what 
p Antigua. As 
remarked by the Superintendent, “anything that succeeds at 
ody Ponds should also succeed in the Christian Valley sand 
Fig-tree Hill regions, and in multitudes of little gullies where 
small springs exist.” 
At Copse Cross, near English Harbour, in the south-east of the 
island, Sisal hemp succeeded remarkably well. Sproat 
lanuginosa was found in this pya in a semi-wild con ' 
e cultivation of this valuable fibre plant was capable o 
ver a larg ; 
grown, and samples sent to England were favourably reported 
upon. Pine-apples did exceedingly well ; in fact, this district is 
the head-quarters of the pine-apple saia A local variety 
is known as the Black or Antigua Pin 
1893 it hie rls tance to move the Botanic Station fhe 
Claro Hall to a portion of cleared land close to the town of 
St. John’s, known as Victoria Park. The Superintendent nd 
out that such a removal would take away the possibility of carry- 
ing on the experiments already ret with vegetables, fruit 
trees, and fodder plants; in fact, such experiments would have 
d 
yet economic work has not been neglected, but there is a greater 
parry ae SaS useful economic work done at the present moment than 
ever before.” 
At this time the Department of Agriculture included the head 
office in Antigua, four Botanic Sta tions at Antigua, Dominica, 
a t. Ki i 
h ted in 
Superintendent, by whom they were regularly visited. The 
Bulletins issued by the Sere were 36 in number, of 
which between 7,000 and 8,000 copies were distributed all over 
the Colony and to toi tans in different countries in usual 
course of exchange. The Bulletins contained information of 
practical importance in the domains of botany, vegetable path- 
ology, agriculture, geology, entomology, veterinary science, and 
allied foc yg study. An “Agricultural Journal” was after- 
improvement of the agriculture of the islands. An investigation 
of the diseases affecting cattle in Antigua was undertaken, as also 
of the various fungoid and insect diseases which had so seriously 
injured the sugar-canes both at Antigua and St. Kitts-Nevis. 
