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CCXLI.—BOTANICAL STATION, ST. VINCENT. 
Amongst the botanical stations lately — iu the West Indies (in 
accordance with a scheme deseri in the Kew Bulletin, xat an 
July 1887) there is none iuvested with so much intrest as the station 
now in course of being established in the island of St. Vincent. 
St. Vincent is one of the Windward Islands lying a A 100 miles 
¥ Aakori of Barbados. Itis- a picturesque and fertile island, and very 
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intersected by deep ravines. The total area is 133 square miles, with 
a population of 50,000. At present only about one-sixth of the surface 
. of the island is under permanent cultivation. 
. .. Briefly stated the object Eine by the establishment of a botanical 
 . Station in St. Vincent is to provide a small but efficient centre for 
^ propagating and distributing _ industrial plants, and to afford aid and 
information in regard to their cultivation in suitable localities in. the 
island. The site of the i olisni station. is that occupied by the old 
botanical garden of St. Vincent, begun so long ago as 1765. . This was 
xe E of the kind started in the West Indies and possibiy 










nnexion with the eiitabllichhi R 
ints, to jacit at cost en gman ban ee, an oe 
ants te persons who desire to cultivate. piraan: w 
ners, larg and small, such paaa ss he ms 



aboot E the fruits of. St. ‘Vincent, is grei in the "P4 Bulletin, ide 
pec and its productions, with suggestions for establishing SEES 
2 ds: ion t. Mortis mission to. the West - v 
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