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At the Grenada Botanical Station, the Curator, in a Bulletin (No. 9 
eee hie: states that “there are in cultivation about 2 acres 
f Sisal Hemp. These were planted ou eres to Stoddart’s method, 
viz., 12 feet eae rows, and 10 f n the rows, on a rocky hill- 
side facing the west, and therefore ily exposed to the sun. For 
the sake of eee to half of this cultivation light shade has 
been given ite planting a row of corn between the rows of Sisal Hemp, 
and it is worthy of notice that the plants so shaded have made far 
greater aa than those without shade. It would seem, therefore, 
rather an advanta age to give the plant slight shade, at any rate 
Hise the first few months of its growth.” 
In the Report of the Curator of the Botanical Station at St. Vincent, 
dated the Ist August 1890, it is stated that “ two thousand plants o of 
“ Sisal Hemp (presumably Agave rigida, var. sisalana) have been 
x higahten from Florida. One hundred and thirty of these were found 
“ on arrival to be perfectly useless, and 1,600 were distributed. The 
t eaa 270 were retained for the Botanic Gardens, where the 
“ largest plants were placed in the most suitable ground at my disposal, 
“ the rest ae planted in nursery beds, whence later on they will be 
“ transplante 
In connexion with introduction of plants of Sisal hemp to St. 
Vincent, it may be mentioned that in August 1890, Mr. J. H. Hart, 
FEL S, Superintendent of the Botanical Gardens, Trinidad, drew 
attention to the existence of an Agave in St. Vincent, in the neighbour- 
kood of Calliaqua, very similar to what may be regarded as the wil 
state of Agave r sgt It was finished with teeth and it yielded youd 
