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papaws, plantains, bananas, cocoa-nuts, cinnamon, 

 tamarinds, pine-apples, Indian cabbage, also European ; 

 and many sorts of European salads, such as cucum- 

 bers, pumpkins, water-melons, and parsley." 



Again, Dr. Madden, from his experience in the 

 above-mentioned directions and of the sad fate of the 

 agricultural work alluded to by Mr. Smith, says : — 



"It is unfortunately the lot of all agricultural 

 improvements in these countries to die with the in- 

 dividual who commenced and carried them on ; and, 

 unfortunately, the tendency of the climate to abridge 

 European life is so great, that ere any improvements 

 can be said to be fairly carried into effect the individual 

 dies ; and his executors generally find he died em- 

 barrassed, and his relatives rarely get sufficient means 

 to keep his plantation in cultivation, and after a 

 further effort to keep it, it is ultimately abandoned." 



My own experience of the West Coast leads me to 

 express the opinion that for general marked and 

 progressive work nothing will answer save permanent 

 botanical stations or allied establishments, worked and 

 kept up by the Government The main features to 

 be secured at any site are good soil, fresh water 

 supply, protection by hill or belt of forest against 

 tornadoes or other strong winds, and accessibility 

 either by water or good road. Such institutions 

 could be established on the Sierra Leone hills, on the 

 hills of Aquapim of the Gold Coast, on the mainland 

 of Lagos Colony ; and in British Combo, ceded mile, 



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