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learn that Mr. Green, the curator lately appointed to the дүгү 
Botanical Station, h had made an excellent impression. Mr. Le Hun 
brought with him a choice collection of cut flowers from his garden and 
some excellent fruit, as evidence of what could be grown in the climate 
and soil of Dominica. The case of Gambier plants and the box of vine 
cuttings were safely landed for the Dominica Botanical Station. The 
steamer touched at Basseterre, Guadeloupe, at midaight, and at Plymouth, 
Montserrat, in the very e early m orning. Soon a ter с earing Montserrat 
we had Redonda, a rocky islet, immediately to the north. west, and the 
peaks of Nevis and St. а in the clouds beyond. To the north-east, 
about 25 miles away, was Antigua, with its low conical hills in the 
St. John, Antigua, about 10.30 on the morning of the 26th November. 
I was met by Mr. Lucie Smith, the Governor’s private secretary, and 
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by his Excellency Sir William F. Haynes Smith, K.C.M.G., and we 
pease at once to discuss the best means for carrying out the objects 
of my visit 
LEEWARD ISLANDS. 
ANTIGUA. 
Antigua is the seat of the Federal Government of the Leeward 
Islands, where the Governor and principal officers of the Colony reside. 
The а, of Antigua includes the islands of Barbuda and Redon 
with a total area of 170 пок miles. Antigua is comparatively 
flat, the chief s. aT Ae ‚200 to 2,000 feet, occupying the 
The clim i very healt 
About one-third only of the island is under cultivation at the present 
time, The chief town is St. John, situated on a gentle slope overlooking 
a harbour of the same name. The population of St. John is about 
10,000; of the whole island about 35,000. 
November 26.—My first visit in Antigua was paid to the land 
selected as a site for the Botanical Station on Clare Hall Estate. 
Although operations had only been commenced during the past 12 
were devoted to 20 varieties of grape-vines, pine-apples, fibre plants 
(Sansevieria, Boehmeria, Furcrea), bananas, cacao, Mois cotton, 
coffee, mulberry for aime rms. d fruit trees. ursery beds 
contained several hundred small plants ready for distribution, and some 
ornamental trees and shrubs suitable for shade Iter. 
A short distance from the Botanieal Station (on the Skerrits Estate) 
it is К to establish а reformatory school for boys. The labour 
of these boys is to be chiefly devoted to = чуч of provisions and 
pote p for their own maintenance, and to carrying on experiments 
ке. to sugar-cane cultivation, on the lines so successfully 
