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= in SN York. This has induced him to lay out 130 acres 
e Department has also had under training two lads 
en the a of Lagos, and has trained as agriculturists eat 
lads from the Hope induserial School. 
A. Scheme for starting an experimental agricultural station was 
formulated during the year by the Botanical Director, the Agri- 
cultural Inspector, and the Principal of the High School at Hope 
for the employment and instruction of industrial school boys, ker 
of boys whose parents are willing to pay for their maintena 
The scheme was approved hy the Government, but er at 
dre be carried out for want of funds 
reat rise in the beginning of 1899 i in the price of quinine 
and end bark led to an enquiry into the present condition of 
the einchona depuis and the pues d of manufacturing 
quinine locally as in India. As a result it das arum doubtful, 
unless prices rise sull further, whether bark can be harvested for 
sale, or quinine manufactured locally, as a a of profit 
Grape Fruit.—A brief notice of this fruit which has become an 
important article of e eb fro m = West Indies to the United 
States, where it is very popul s given under the head of 
Bahamas in the Kew Bulletin for 1898 (p. 180). 
The following hs enamel are taken from Dr. Morr 
* Report on the Economic Resources of the West Indies " (Kew 
Bulletin, Additional. Seri ies, L., p. 150) :— 
“The grape-fruit is a member of the orange tribe that has 
lately come into great favour in the United States. It is a fruit 
allied to the shaddock (Citrus decumana), but smaller, and with 
a finer flavour. It is regarded as very wholesome and refreshing, 
nd possessing valuable tonic properti Fortunately trees 
yielding this fruit were already plentiful in Jamaica, and 
island was at once able to meet the d ear the value 
emand. y 
of the exports was nearly £6,000. It is probable that it may 
eh be more profitable to grow the grape-fruit than the 
range. 
À question has arisen as to whether the grape-fruit, being 
apparantly only a cultivated race, would come true seed. 
The following letter seems conclusive on this point :— 
ER. AE Esq., M.B., C.M., Barbados, to a 
F AGRICULTURE FOR THE WEST IND 
Culloden, St. Michael 
Dear DR. MoRR October 21, 1899. 
IT H reference en our conversation about grape-fruit, my 
cows is as follo 
When in je some years ago I tasted some most delicious 
ones at Mrs. Jacobson Hill’s, grown in her own garden. I very 
much desired a plant, and she gave me some of the fruit so that 
