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so, and you could put us in communication with eet the article 
ould} be likely to interest, we should be very much obliged to you 
We send you the tin; we do not know whether you have seen | any 
specimen of this fruit before 
We are, &c. 
( Signed) GovrrÉ & JAMES. 
W.T. Thilo Dyer, Esq., C.M.G., 
Royal Gardens, Kew 
Proffessor HUMMEL to ROYAL GARDENS, Kew. 
The Yorkshire, Leeds. 
My DEAR Sir Spee 6th, 1894. 
Ox June 5, 1894, I received a letter and a sample of the ripe 
fruits of the clove (Eugenia caryophyllata) from you, 2s ‘the statement 
that they are used by the natives of the Seychelles in dyeing, and with 
the request that I would give you my opinion as to their merits. 
Unfortunately € interveniug summer holidays have prevented me 
from replying ti 
I separated the bm of this fruit from the kernel, after drying, and 
dyed with this part only, since this alone appears to posses any tinetorial 
po 
"wer, i 
As a dye stuff it is of little value. It behaves really like a tannin 
matter, and I have therefore handed over the remainder of my sample to 
Mr. Proctor, asking him to examine it for tannic acid and to report to 
ou. 
À For your inspection I enclose three pieces of mordanted cotton dyed 
with weld, gall nuts, and skin E = clove fruit, respectively, from which 
you see at a glance how it beha 
It is attracted by aie og oes grey with iron one buff-yellow 
with aluminium, very much after the manner of groun 
Yours trul 
ye 
(Signed) J.J. HUMMEL, 
CCOCXXX.—THE LAHAINA SUGAR-CANE. 
The Lahaina cane of the Hawaiian Islands has been regarded as one 
of the most valuable varieties cultivated in that Archipelago. It has of 
late years been introdaced to other sugar-producing countries, such as 
the Southern United States and the West Indies, It very closely 
resembles the white canes brought to Jamaica from the Pacific in His 
Majesty's ships by Captain Bligh in 1796. The Lahaina cane may 
very possibly, therefore, be the original of the canes now known in 
West Indies, and other sugar countries, as the Cuban, Bourbon, 
Otaheite. These are valuable white canes £ o closely resembling e 
other that it is almost impossible to distinguish them. The history of 
the Lahaina cane has lately been publishe d by the Planter’s Monthly 
of the Hawaiian Islands. We reproduce the following extract from 
the Sugar-cane for November 1894 : 
Origin of the * Lahaina” Cane. 
The following account of the “ Lahaina cane” and its history has a 
certain possible value in view of the inquiries now being made in the 
endeavour to trace the facts connected with the origin and propagation 
of certain diseases of the cane. 
