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à ut. s J. Lugard, has been received from the collectors, 
ontains many undescribed species. The plants collected 
Boite ins: and South Abit by the late Mr. Theodore Bent, have: 
also been presented to 
An interesting collection, made in N'gamiland by Major F. D. ‘i 
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Fruit Industries in Jamaica.—O wing to the depression in the 
sugar industry in the West Indies, considerable interest attaches to 
the development of other industries likely to prove serviceable in 
such islands as are fortunate enough to possess the necessary 
conditions. In Jamaica, for instance, with a considerable extent 
of land rising above the level of the sea a diversified system of 
cultivation is practicable, and already leading to successful results. 
From the Blue Book of Jamaica, it appears that the total exports 
for the year 1895-96 were of the value of £1,873,105. Of this 
amount the exports to the United Kingdom were of the value 
of £517, qe while those to the re ‘States were of the value 
of £1, 067, 86. The considerable trade now carried on between 
Jamaica ie the he ste States is chiefly in fruit and other fresh 
ropical produce conveyed by a considerable fleet of- steamers 
locust fitted for ie purpose, The principal taal Seats is 
ana. Of this, A 796 bunches were export 1895-96 
of the value of rm 560, while oranges, owin ng t ae recent 
destruction of the orange ‘trees in Flo orida, ead exported to the 
number of 97,925,398, and the value of £169,794. These two 
fruits were therefore shipped to the value of £156,35 4, During 
the same period the exported value of sugar (formerly the chief 
staple of the —— amounted to only £195,459, while the value 
of the rum was £164,600. The combined value of the exports in 
sugar and rum was therefore £260,059, ond one-fifth of the whole 
produce of the Colony or about £200, 000 le Begs the combined 
value of two of the fruits exported, viz., the Bail nas and oranges. 
— has, however, other valuable industries ; the logwood 
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£359, 039, coffee a value of £284,821, gin iger a value of £50,328, 
pimento or allspice a value of £90, 046, cigars a value of £7,649, 
and tobacco a value of £197. It may be mentioned ‘that 
numerous other fruits and fruit products besides bananas and 
oranges are being gradually increased in export value from year 
to year. The following figures afford interesting indications of 
this increase : cocoa-nuts, "e37,774 ; grape-fruit, £5,832 ; 
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juice, £5,585; pine-apples, £524; kola-nuts, £291; whilst, 
tamarinds and unenumerated fruits account for £212. The total 
value of the fruit exported from Jamaica at the present time 
amounts to £537,601. The fruit exported from Jamaica as 
the Tangerine orange is for the most part the large fruited 
Mandarin orange, native of China. Both the leaves and the loose 
rind of this fruit possess a characteristic ouer unlike that of any 
other of the orange tribe. The true Tangerine orange is smaller 
than the Mandarin, with an ERA wg slightly perfumed 
