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arbour formed of pitch pine covered with creepers. [n the village 
street were some interesting fan-leaved palms, probably Sabal Black- 
burniana. 
December 2.—After meeting several planters, who desired informa- 
tion, ар the Government offices, І visited а few private gardens in the 
town of St. John. Mr. Alleyne Archer, an К ea horticulturist, 
had a very ро collection of fruit trees and ornamental plants, 
Amongst the latter were fine plants of Jpomea Horsfullie, a large 
flowered ferm of Antigonon leptopus, numerous plants in pots of the 
graceful Thrinua radiata, which is said to form large thickets in the 
island of Barbuda, and a very ка ыл series of Hibiscus hybri 
Dr. Edwards had a fine plant in flower of Porana volubilis, known 
locally as the “ white corallina,” a good pe of Calliandra purpurea, 
originally from Kew, and a grape-vine, Muscat of Alexandria, Bishop. 
Branch, whose diocese extends over 16 islands, 10 English and six 
foreign, very courteously and kindl took me over his garden. It 
QUIM many puis P gres and, where uA lied with water, they 
are growing luxuriantly and producing a wealth of beautiful flowers. 
Methonica (Gloriosa) dels had established itself thoroughly in this 
remote part of the world, as also a fine form of Bougainvillea glabra, 
which clambered over high trees. 
—'The morning was devoted to a Hove visit to the 
Botanical Station, The details of work for the t twelve months 
were fully discussed, and саси made for "amt shade and 
shelter trees on the eastern boun 
The following contains a short description of a station and of the 
suggestions made to the Government respecting it 
The Antigua Botanical Station is situated at Clere Hall (an old sugar 
estate, late the property of Mr. Liggins), Mont ы к from Govern- 
ment House, and 14 from the landing wharf a hn’ 
е site posse sses good soil. It is ачко ея to the eastward, 
and will — to be sheltered by growth of mango or other hardy 
trees, are three ponds of fresh water on the land; but it will no 
doubt be ERE to lay pipes on the upper portions to supply the 
nurseries and propagating sheds. 
A house for the Curator is required to be built on the land, 
a he lives in town, and is cut off from the immediate supervision 
of his 
The a angement of the plots is shown on a detailed plan left with 
ме зл} The plants under Sms imental trial are those which now 
ract chief attention at Anti Plot A will ии be planted 
cacao, nutmeg, cloves, cola, fruit trees and ес bis likely to be 
ызынга at Antigua. Plot now growing the two varieties of 
Egyptian cotton, will be permanently М with economic plants 
of various pola ди" п as models of what such plants should be under 
proper treatmer 
Plot C, on = slope of a rise facing south, is occupied with 
vines and pine-apples (Black Antigua). Grape-vines do fairly well in 
Antigua. A fruit industry is sought to be started in grapes for the 
markets of the United States and Canada. Pine-apples have not 
hitherto thriven in the northern parts of Antigua. They flourish best 
in the black soils at Liberta and Piber pistes р De e extreme south of 
the island. 
