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nuts on the Pas Geometriques deserves the attention of Government. 
nless there are some grounds for assuming that cocoa-nuts do not 
thrive so well at Mauritius as in other tropical places in the Indian 
even enough green cocoa-nuts for the use of the inhabitants. It would 
appear that, in the year 1884, nearly Rs. 30,000 were spent on green 
nuts imported from other countries, while the ‘total value of the produce 
of the cocoa-nut palm eink rted from abroad and consumed in the 
as t cultiv I appe howev 
Horne’s remarks, that he does not apprehend any “ serious loss arising 
“ to cocoa-nut plantations from these hurrica re it i 
presumed to be, is the result of experience and observation exten ng 
over many years, there is no reason why this industry, at least, is not 
greatly extended in all suitable localities. 
8. With regard to the cultivation of cacao (chocolate), coffee, cin- 
chona, and tea the case is quite different. ‘These are not likely to thrive 
except in well-sheltered situations, to escape hurricanes, and, in localities 
sufficiently cool and moist, to be beyond the influence of prolonged 
droughts. C is the least likely to thrive in Mauritius. Coffee 
For local consumption Liberian coffee might be grown, but the 
y felélni this, although better able to withstand the disease, being larger 
than the ordinar ary coffee, is all the more liable to be damaged by 
hurricanes. 
9. The cultivation of the several species of cinchona, except perhaps 
to a limited extent red bark (Cinchona succirubra), is not li ikely to be a 
success at Mauritius, for the extent of land at a suitable elev ation even 
be too small to afford scope for anything more than a limited industry. 
The cuprea ‘ask trees (Remijia) will grow at a lower elevation than the 
true p araire trees, and experiments be these from seed lately sent 
w would afford more hope of success. 
4,900 feet above sea level.” It is possible that all the phys sical condi- 
tions exist for establishirg a tea industry in Mauritius, but it must be 
borne in mind that unless tea can be grown, manufactured, and pineal 
in the oe a at a ee without duty not exceeding 6d. to thew 
(that is, securing for it a warm, humid, and forcing climate) to ensure 
large “flushes”; and to have at haud a an abundant "n of cheap 
labour. The large number of tea plants, estimated at about 30,000, 
already in the island should afford a ready means = "esting the ceapa- 
bilities of a tea industry as well as the cost of produc 
sregards the cultivation of cereals and pulse s ne plants as maize, 
ns 
also. 
favourable markets offer, for export purposes, ‘The consumption of rice 
