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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 21.] SEPTEMBER. 1888. 
LVII.—COLONIAL FRUIT (continued). 
Dominica. 
The following interesting and valuable Report on the fruits 
Dominica has been prepared by Dr. H. A. Alford Nicholls, F.L.S., 
. Government Medical Officer, a a valued correspondent of Kew :— 
From the time of zs settlement Dominica has been justly celebrated 
for its fruit. O e British Puessnópe in the Lesser Antilles it is 
now regarded as having the best promise of the development of a large 
and remunerative fruit trade, not only with the United States and 
e 
and Canada, and it is also the nearest of the West Indian fruit 
‘ LONDON: 
PRINTED FOR HER MAJESTY’S STATIONERY OFFICE, 
BY EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE 
PRINTERS TO THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. 
EYRE AND SPOTTISWOODE, East Havne STREET, 1 FLEET STREET, E.C. and 
DON STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.; or 
ADAM AND RAE BLACK, 6, nc reenter EDINBURGH; or 
HODGES, FIGGIS, & Co., 104, G N STREET, DUBLIN. 
1888. 
Price Twopence, 
