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employed by mixing it with other manure, and it has given good results 
in the cane fields. 
(Signed) A. VANDERMEERSC 
February 17, 1890. Acting Surveyor-General. 
STATEMENT of WORK executed at ST. ANTOINE HEMP FACTORY 
in District of RIVER DU REMPART, MAURITIUS. 
Year 1889. 
February - - - 15 days’ work with 9 grattes 
March - - - 18 a DA Avie 
May - - - - 20 i H eea 
June - es a ai a ” H ” 
60 days. 
Equivalent to 630 days’ work of one gratte. 
The produce has been 213,371 kilos. of wet fibre, which have given— 
401 bales of dy ne lst quali 
= e fibre, ‘edie quality. 
407 bales, erd 61,050 kilos. 
Mean day’s work=10,175 kilos 
Proportion of dry fibre to wet ‘bees ==28'61 A 
A true copy of note supplied by Manager. 
(Signed) A. VANDERMEERSCH 
February 17, 1890. Acting Surveyor-General. 
LXVIIL—AGAVES AND ARBORESCENT LILIACEZ ON 
THE RIVIER 
[K B., 1892, p. 1-10.] 
At the close of November 1891, Mr. J. G. Baker, F.R.S., kape of 
the herbarium and library, paid a short visit to the e garden: of the 
Riviera for the purpose of studying the plants of Agave aaa allied 
genera, and the plants of such Arborescent Liliacee as had been 
os ocoseetalle EEEE into cultivation in that part of the world. 
= The following notes, prepared by Mr. Baker, deal with the plants of a 
= few groups only. 
The principal object of a visit which I made in November-December 
1891, at the instigation of the Director, to the gardens of the Riviera, 
was to see the Agavew and arborescent Liliaceze growing there in quanti- 
ties in the open air. I have for some time devoted special attention 
to these two groups ‘of plants, and have written papers upon them in 
which I have endeavoured to work out and characterise the species and 
varieties. In these large plants very little help can be o ed from 
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herbarium materials, and the species have been mostly described and 
their =e of vatiation studied from a small number of specimens 
grown in the conservatories of England, France, Germany, and Belgium. 
it. is quite obvious that the range of specific variation is often far 
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