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e Kew Bulletin E 1894 (pp. 81-86) contains an account of the 
success obtained from scedling sugar-canes m British Guiana and 
Mauritius. Ste this was published a fuller ^ Report o n the Agri- 
cultural work in the Botanical Gardens, for the years 1891-92 
(Demerara, 1894)," has adhe issued, This contains, pp. 11-26, an 
elaborate report of the further progress of the experiments in British 
‘Guiana. Four of the seedlings raised in 1889 are stated by the writer 
be, “the richest canes in sucrose we gue C RA _ during our 
‘extended experience in this colony and the West Ind Further, 
**six of the seedling canes raised. ir 1999 —— 5 mu ve results in 
excess of those yielded by the Bourbon ina year in which those canes 
had given results "gehen above the a edi aces what is of great 
importance is that these were due not to 
excessively high yields of canes per acre, but t dé high saccharine 
richness of the canes.’ 
The general conclusion arrived at that * the saccharine richness of a 
seedling cane is equally as problematical as the conjecture beforehand 
as to its colour or size” is in accordance with general experience. 
‘The following correspondence has taken place with the Queensland 
Government with respect to ihe Kew seedling :— 
AGENT GENERAL FOR QUEENSLAND to Rorat GARDENS, Kew. 
Queensland ATTI Office, 
Waianae Chambers, 1, Victoria Stree 
Sir, London, S. W. 10th August "1896. 
I nave the honour to enel a copy of a letter which I have 
received from the gr oed sed the Department of Agriculture, 
Brisbane, copcernin ugar canes supplied by you in 
October 1890, and e TW feel obliged if you can furnish me with the 
information desire 
I have, &c. 
(Signed) Cuas. S. 
"The Director, Acting ides ‘Comm 
Royal Gardens, Kew. 
[ Enclosure. ] 
QUEENSLAND. 
rior car w E rR Aa Brisbane, 
Sir i June 1896, 
N December "t: this Piriti kE Ae a Wardian case of 
coding 1 sugar canes from the Royal Gardens at Kew, as ed ised in your 
letter of 23rd Gaber 1890. These seedlings, as you were informed, 
were planted in the State Nursery at Mackay, which at that time had 
r just been started. They have resulted in a cane that is so well 
thought of in the Mackay district and elsewhere, as being “ first in sugar, 
a great stooler, and rattooner, enm fine broad healthy foliage, and 
having all the characteristics of a first-class cane, tl at all who have 
seen it here this season are iori 2 by its appearance." (Report of 
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