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oa Plum Creek, with 654,000 "plants, a nd 10 a acres at ‘Black Sound, 
with 7,000 plants. In addition to the field plants, there are also ab 
300,000 plants in nurseries. 
“The company intend to plant their fields with cotton between the 
Sisal, and I understood Mr. Trumble to say that seed ne this purpose 
had already been received from one of the southern States of America. 
The Company has also a factory at Black Sound, in whi ch there are 
five of Death & Ellwood’s story ge "eri by a 15 horse-power steam 
engine. These have been employed in cleaning Sisal leaves purchased 
from persons who have Rosen pite The yield of cleaned fibre 
as ascertained to be about 4 per , but I could not help being 
* At Marsh Harbo is the handsomest Sisal field I have 
seen. 'lhis was slanted or Me: Benjamin E. — " wo years ago, and 
contains 140 aeres, with 107,000 plants There were at 
least 25,000 suckers then in the field, and ae Roberts assured me 
* At Hope Town, Mr. Thomas Pema, * * * ‘has about —: 
plants, some of which have been growing half a dozen years, a d fro 
these he expects to gather 100,000 Lm plants (bulbils) this pes in 
addition to a large number of suckers 
^ Another gentleman of the same name, now residing in Nassa 
has a very fine n M at Black Sound, containing many thousands of 
young plants 
* Propaga tion.— The plant is propagated in two ways, namely, from 
the young plants furnished by the pole (bulbils), and the suckers which 
are thrown out from the roots. On the plant reaching maturity, a pole 
he pole. I e 
the pole, bulbils that develop into young plants appear, varying in 
length from 2 to 4 inches, and in number from 1,000 to 2,500, and 
oceasionally more. Tes are then gathered and set out 8 or 9 inches 
apart each way in nursery beds. In six months they will attain 
gun of 8 to 12 inches, and they may then be transferred to the 
* Suckers are plants which qucd m out from the roots of the parent 
plant, and in congenial soil. are produced in 12 to 18 months. From 
results, viz., in removing a sucker from the parent plant, instead of 
cutting or breaking off the rapi only, to uproot entirely the white 
shoot at the end of which i M EUN. and us that off as near the 
