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at Dodd’s reformatory, Barbados. This will give a valuable industrial 
pii Ji to about 300 or 400 boys, and the experimental DT ation 
carried on by them will prove of great advantage to the 
portion of the same estate, immediately at the back of the sinum of St. 
John, is in course of being laid out as a publie park. Driving roads 
were being made through it, and Ув grass land was being levelled and 
planted with shade and ornamental t 
November 27.—After an early visit to the Botanical Station I 
accompanied the Governor to Wallens, a district in the heart of the 
hills of the south-west, тея а large reservoir is in course of being 
^el ` Pesar = island with water. Antigua has always suffered 
of a 
to St. John along the coast road to Johnson's Point and Blubber's 
Valley. 
The principal plants noted on this journey were fine specimens of 
Walnut (Andira inermis), the African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), 
re badly injured by bo 
(Cocos pae, үү introduced, were seen near the town reser- 
November 28.—I discussed with the Curator, the plan of operations 
at the Botanical Station, and drew up a form of weekly report to be 
forwarded to the Colonial Secretary’s office. At the request of the 
Governor, I gave an address in the Court House, St. John, at 3 o'clock, 
on Cultural industri ies чын to ү нии of An па. The 
Governor took the chai To quote from the Anti Observer, 
** There were present the Colonial Sero. the Chief Lema P 
* Branch, the Members y^ the Legislative Council, ани most of the 
* leading proprietors and planters.” Attention was ‘drawn to i im- 
provement тич of being grit in regard to the signe industry by 
the introduction of new canes, and b и with the aid of a 
the subject of fibre plants, Egyptian cctton, the cultivation of fruits, 
coffee, cacao, tobacco, ы fodder grasses. At the close of the address 
resolutions were passed in favour of establishing an agricultural and 
commercial society for shat Colony of the Leeward Islands. This society 
was proposed to devote special attention to the development of local 
industries, and to advise the Government in any matters calculated to 
increase the мебу бете resources of the islands by skilful and systematic 
cultivation. 
After the lecture a visit was ms to the Pope's Head district “ the 
north-west of the town of St. John. This is an undulating tr f 
country, with a rich с soil, "where the canes, in spite of nthe 
drought, were in very goo 
November 29.—In idi to give me an opportunity of seeing the 
eastern and southern portions of the island, the Governor kindly 
arranged to drive from St. John to English Harbour, tbrough a district 
in which there were numerous sugar estates, and where some drainage 
