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under the Surveyor General, wliose officers, scattered as they are over 
the Colony, would be in a position to further the interests of the Station 
by contributing from time to time useful plants and seeds. 
In the promotion of the distribution in the Colony of Coffea arabica 
and Coffea liberica, and other seedlings, the co-operation of the religious 
denominations and commissioners has been invited, and plants free of 
cost have — pinced at their disposal. 
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The Royal Gardens, Kew, and the Botanical Department Jamaica 
have been constant and generous in their supply of plants an eon 
rom the report for the quarter ended 31st December 1894, it appears 
that 1,844 plants are in their permanent places, whilst 9,422 in beds and 
pots re menit: available for the public. 
The issues have amounted to 25,024, of which 16,829 have been sold 
e. 
Amongst these were 19 ae 597 Cocoanut, 23,795 Coffee, 49 
Cacao, E run, 136 Rose 
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Gaia by experience, icin may, I think, ee as products 
Mee from a Meere point of view can be profitably grown :—the 
, banana, cacao, coffee (arabica for the rie fih liberica 
for the lowlands), cane, rubber (Castilloa T cocoanuts, coja aoe 
pe fruit, ground ied henequen, jute, lemon, lime, nu 
D neapple, bist ntain, pimento, sapodilla ‘which pc the chewing gum 
used in the United States), Shaddock, tobacco, and vanilla. 
s to what are generally ca “Kitchen Garden Products ” it may 
be convenient to know that dnd grow luxuriantly in this Colony the 
Jerusalem artichoke, asparagus, beans of various kinds, cabbage o 
cauliflower, celery, corn, cucumber, edible gourds, Indian kale, lettuce, 
melon, mint, ochro ( wide ely used in gombo soap in the ee States), 
parsley, potatos (ordinary and sweet), pea, soe tomat 
With such a list as I have mentioned, it seem Vellei incredible 
that vegetables have to be imported fro iC NN Orleans, some 8 
miles aN and that that city is our source wot supply instead of being 
our m s x 
The station was opened, as ra nee in diliat 1892. Quite 
one-half the area had to be reclaimed and raised 2 feet in some parts. 
It began to be productive in April 1893. 
The experiment has cost the Colony, for 1892-4, $1,429°40, or £159, 
a bagatelle compared with the value to the Colony of the economic 
plants distributed, of the hygienic tree planting that has taken place, 
and of the practical instruction — by the € 
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The. continued "T in MT price of. mahogany idi resulted in closing 
nearly all the mahogany works. The richer and healthier lands are 
not | su ceny accessible to pogei agriculture being ente 
hundreds, depopulate the Colony, and paralyse pon trade and revenue. 
ALFRED MOLONEY, 
Governor, 
