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e hard-stemmed pm from which sugar is made, the followin ng 
t have flowered: Kannar, Lábri, Ghorruh. I am sending bv this week's 
—— mail flowering specimens of each of the above, and next week I will 
|... send you some seed,” 2 
| The sugar cane seed promised by Mr. Duthie, was duly received at | 
= Kew. It was sown on two occasions and carefully watched, but none 
E C or it, germinated. It is quite possible that in India, as in the W 
given in the Annual Report of Government Bolauicaf Gardens, Saha- - 
rünpur, for the year 1891, p. 10, and is purely of a negative character. 
The recent hurricane at MAURITIUS appears to ‘ted been equally 
destructive to vegetable life, and the beautiful Botanical Garden n the 
island have been almost completely «destroyed. hot teil of 
g s taken i 
show nothing but heaps of wreckage, where once majestic palms, 
Keg tree fer ns, and lovely orchids flourisbed only a few hours d 
liam Scott, the Acting Director, writes as follows on the 1 






can get them 
he wr ed up nine foet "high, and it will be onte 
before we can get it Waited away.’ 
The following tion hh cien respecting the Sisal Een or Pit 
3 vede in the Bahamas is giv e Governor's Report o 
Blue Book for the year 1891 (Co Soniai Hepóris No. 44, 1892) :— 
‘Fibre cultivation makes very satisfactory progress, and there are no 
about 8,000 acres planted out. At least 6,000 acres will be added to. 
area in 1892. A larger additi ; th a 

al to any su 
SEAT The adoption of the limit which restricts. Crown lbement 
| and this will Mieter r bea an increasing dsiblty. but a ósiefaft estima 
— shows that it will not reach beyond 14,000 to 15,000 tons up to the 
year 1900. The subsequent advance will be much more ra 
in no. reasonable view of the c Hiss pennies the aes from 


