ROYAL GARDENS, KEW, to COLONIAL OFFICE. 
SIR, Royal Gardens, Kew, 2nd December 1886. 
REFERRING to my letter of August 18th, 1885, in which I sug- 
gested that the Director of the Botanic Garden, Mauritius, m might furnish 
a report on the economic plants to which, in the present economic ae 
tion of the colony, attention might be given, I have now the honour to 
inform you ae I have been favoured by Mr. Horne with copies of the 
enclosed pa 
2. This do enibi reflects great credit on Mr. Horne’s knowledge and 
resource, ae if properly brought under the attention of the residents in 
the island, can hardly fail to suggest many practicable developments 
of new cultural industries, 
3. Mr. Morris, the Assistant Director of this aa enin Te a 
wide acquaintance with the subject, has drawn up the e closed m mo- 
randum, which I have the honour to submit to the Sardar of State, in 
the hope that the suggestions it contains may be of some service to the 
Government of the colony. 
I am, &c. 
Edward Wingfield, Esq., (Signed) W. T. THISELTON DYFR, 
Colonial Office, 

MEMORANDUM of OBSERVATIONS on Mr. Horne’s Report on the 
AGRICULTURAL RESOURCES OF MAURITIUS, 
3." at Mr. tens ne is i aptieie as regards sugar as well as St 
poe ae is apparent in several pages of the re ort, and no doubt, 
common with all who feel an interest in the eres fon is anxious t 
improve the cultivation of the sugar cane, and to see produced at a 
minimum cost the finest or of sugar which tinproved machinery and 
the best scientific methods ca 
. In view of the expenditure already incurred by planters, local 
societies, and by Gove ernment, in intr roducing new varieties of sugar 
canes, in eee E Coolie immigration, and in other ways admitting the 
e-eminence of ‘sugar, it is evident that the staple industry of Mauri- 
tius ba acted every consideration to which it could fairly lay 
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fres eea or the revival of old are ‘which offer some rele of 
_ The cocoa-nut, which comes first on the list, would appear not to 
receive that attention at Mauritius which its value and merit deserves, 
and the suggestion made by Mr. Horne to secure the planting of cocoa- 
