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ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 27.] MARCH. [1889, - 
LXXXIV.—FIBRE INDUSTRY AT THE BAHAMAS. 
At the request of the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the following 
correspondence is published in the Kew Bulletin, respecting a fibre 
industry at the Bahamas, in which the Governor, "Sir Ambrose Shea, 
takes a deep personal interest. A supplementary note is added, givin; 
the most recent information which has reached Kew respecting “fibres | 
from Agave and other plants :— 
CoroNianL Orrice to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
ede ies. Street, 
SIR, 4th December 1888. 
AM directed by Lord Knutsford to Vues to you a copy of a 
Justices of the Islands, on the present position and prospects of a fibre — 
industry in the Colony, and to state that his Tordalig puer be dd if x 
a copy of the circular could be inserted in y T ulletin. z 
m, &c. 
(Signed). Jonw BRAMSTON. | 
The Directo 
Royal Gisda, Kew. 
LONDON: 
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1889, 
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