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been planted out in the Q-arden, and if one at least of them 

 should happen to be a female we shall be able to graft for dis- 

 tribution as we have the stocks, and can rear as many more as 

 we shall require, I shall try to obtain more seed if possible. 



Jadoo Fibre —Wishing to give a fair trial to this method of 

 plant growing, I obtained from the Jadoo Company in England 

 a ton of the fibre, and asked Mr. Wylie to give it his elose 

 attention and report on it in due course. As our experience 

 with it did not promise very well, I omitted mention of it in 

 my last Annual Report, and determined to give it a longer 

 trial. During the year the local agent of the company visited 

 the Gardens in company with a member of the Home firm, 

 and saw the plants which were then under trial, and I asked 

 them to look at the fibre and see whether it was in good 

 condition, which they did and appeared to be satisfied that it 

 was all right. The liquid we have not tried. The" following is 

 Mr. Wy lie's report upon the fibre : — 



EXPERIMENTS WITH JADOO FIBRE. 



In June, 1897, we received a ton of Jadoo fibre, and in the 

 following October potted two each of the undermentioned 

 species in it : — 



Anthurium Andreanum ; crystallinum ; leuconeurum ; magni- 

 ficum ; regale. 



annas ; 12 varieties. 



Dieffenbachia Bauseei ; magnifica ; Memoria Cortii ; Ver- 

 shaffeltii. 



Maranta Makoyana ; Massangeanum ; Veitchii ; Zebrina. 



Pandanus javanicus variegatus ; Veitchii. 



Panax Victor ice ; Stenoglottis longifolia. 



Adiantum Oollisii ; cuneatum ; Fergusoni ; fissum ; gracilli- 

 mum ; intermedium ; Lathomi ; Le grande ; peruvianum ; 

 tenerum ; trapeziforme ; villosum ; trapeziforme, var Sancta 

 Catherineoe. 



Davallia hirta cristata ; polypodioides ; tenuifolia. 



Nephrolepis davallioides var furcans ; rufescens var tripinna- 

 tifida. 



Selaginella erythropus ; filicina; viticulosa; Wallichii. 



All the above grew well in Jadoo with the exception of 

 Adiantum Fergosoni ; gracillimum ; Le grande ; fissum ; and 

 peruvianum, which had to be turned out of the Jadoo and re- 

 potted in soil, when they soon made vigorous growth. The 

 Cannas did not grow so robust nor flower so freely as those 

 grown in soil, none of the plants or Ferns showed any better 

 results than those grown in our ordinary potting soil. 



