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* By these means he has succeeded in getting not less than 300 acres 
planted out, about half of which is now fit for cutting. His piants are 
placed too close to each other, and have not been kept clean, but they are 
strong and in good condition and would furnish leaves from 3 to 4 feet 
ong. Some plants that I saw in the village enclosures which had 
received proper attention were much finer, the leaves being stout and 
yulbsoloured and not less than 44 feet long. 
“The fibre plants planted out. by Mr. Stubbs are, I bile the true 
‘pita.’ (Specimens have since been received at Kew, and the ey are 
ou gav r 
those found in Florida and the Bahamas. They have but one thorn and 
that at the end v the leaf. They have all been grown from imported 
ts 
nts. 
**'The pe E are most anxious to start fibre cultivation on their own 
n see 
way to 
ensuring a sale for their leaves, » of course they could not od 
machinery for themselves. Although the Government have but little 
land in that district, ft for provision farms, they have about 2,000 aore 
fit for Pita most o ich is in excellent, position for aff ding w ter 
carriage. This land 1 shall Pa A preserve for the Lorimers' Sed 
in case I am able to induce some persons here to form a company and 
import the necessary machinery." 
The further cya soin of a fibre industry at the Caicos Islands is 
fully described in the Kew Bulletin, December 1890, pp. 273-278. It 
Appears that at West Caicos, Pita plants in good condition were found 
in the bush. e manager of a fibre company (lately 
JAMAICA. 
As might be naturally expected, there has been considerable effort 
made to introduce plants of Sisal hemp for experimental trial in 
T 
Jamaica. T t Governor of Jamaica, Sir Hen 
taken a deep interest in the matter, and land has been established with 
fibre plants adjoining the Hope Gardens. Th » numbering over 
Department is in a position to supply suckers on a large scale to those 
anxious to start a fibre industry. There are large tracts of level and 
accessible lands in the plains of Jamaica suitable for growing Sisal 
of the fortunes which have fallen to the people of Yucatan. At the 
present time the circumstances have greatly sero and the advice 
given by Mr. Fawcett in regard to caution being ne essary before em- 
barking, at this late hour, upon a Sisal- -hemp Ey on à large scale is 
probably correct. In two or three years' time the extensive plantations 
in the Bahamas will be sending their produce to the market, and this, 
in conjunction with the expected increased returns Eon Yucatan, must 
n ower prices, unless something very un 
create a greatly increased demand for Sisal ME 
