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During that career he has done most excellent work as an adminis- 
trator. I also — to think that he has considerably underrated his 
services to scien 
* Now, witb regard to the Colonies and to their connexion with science 
‘their special attention to botany, have done great rvice in many- Abs 
tothe Colonies ; and the importance of botanical science and all it can 
do to secure and promote prosperity in different regions has become, I 
‘am glad to say, much more ee in public ee in these 
‘days than it used to be. Sir Hugh Low has spoken in most just terms 
of services which have been rendered to the rmt aa by Kew. 
I think my friend Mr. Thiselton Dyer will not contradict me when I 
say that he has more to do with the Colonial Office | ie with any other 
public department, and I was very glad to learn from him recently that 
che found the mode in which we transact our business in that epart- 
ment not unworthy of his praise. Great work has been done and is 
being done, mainly through the exertions of Mr. Thiselton Dyer and 
Mr. Morris and his assistants, to aid the Colonies in the ees 
-of new plants, and in the development and cultivation of tho 
naturally = elong to them. In all directions this is the case to 
-day. On the West Coast of Africa at the present moment it is 
being rens E is only, you may ays the Lage genus but a: isa 
commencement which is very satisfactory in its progress an its 
results up to the present time, and which I hope may deyslope.. Qu 
largely in the future. Then, again, we all know that in the Wes 
Indies great work has been done by those men—men, most of and 
ought to say, who have been sent out from Kew to those Colonies: In 
Jamaica there is the fruit cultivation, which has become every da 
important, and Sur only requires the establishment of further ja of 
steamers betw n Jamaica and the United States to develope a still 
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great works which has been undertaken td Kew is to educate the 
Colonies to recognise the nature of their various dire products, and 
the advantage of introducing new products. But when you come to 
introduce new products you encounter difficulties, There are cultivators 
of ther old sort oie ose ti is are dying out, and whose particular 
great Dependency of which I once had the honour of being the head, in 
dndia. The great development in India of tea and cinchona as been 
of the most valuable kind. With regard io tea, look at ius and 
Ceylon and see what has been done of late years. I have had some 
statistics placed before me which show that whereas, not much more 
than 10 years ago— possibly a little longer—the China tea was 66 
. of the w. consumed in the United Kingdom, it is now only 
ak n — and its pun has been taken by teas from India and 
