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December 12.—On landing at St. Kitts, I went up to Government 
House and joined the Governor, who had arrived the л, before by 
the mail from Antigua. After breakfast we drove out to inspect land, 
under the consideration of Government, to be acquired as a site for a 
Botanical Station. | The first was the land immediately opposite Govern- 
but was entirely unsuitable on account of the exposure to strong winds. 
The locality was perfectly flat or slightly a towards the south, 
with no shade or shelter, and it was fully exposed to winds from all 
aie In the калыш эт dry баре of this portion of St. Kitts, 
thrive in such situations during so dry a season as that of 1890-1891. 
nother locality visited was to the west of the town of Basseterre, 
an tween it and the site of the signal itation and battery. This 
was somewhat close to the sea, but the soil was good, and a sheltered 
hollow near the high road, where the canes were growing most 
luxuriantly, offered an excellent situation for-a Botanical Station. А 
fuller description of this locality is given later.: Owing to the absence of 
1889, had started nurseries and a plant дербі on land placed at his 
disposal, adjoining the residence of the Commissioner, Captain 
Churchill. | This situation was very dry and so ex posed to hot 
winds к it еў у res be utilised as an expedient of a temporary 
charac 
At 3 punt I delivered an address at the Court House. The 
Governor took the chair. The subjects touched upon in the address 
are briefly summarised in The St. Christopher Advertiser of the 
16th December 1890, as follows :— Мг. Morris “spoke of the advan- 
“ tages likely to arise if the Leeward Islands would put forth efforts to 
& improve their staple industry [of sugar], and to encourage the starting 
“ of new industries. He sketched the activity displayed by Kew aud 
$ эур ыды Ше me for Botanical Stations, and the formation of 
ff и Society, instancing the benefits which have acerued 
* to [Trinidad], Jamaica and other countries from syi institutions. 
* He described fully and clearly the discovery of the cane-seed, and 
“€ his illustrations of the ‘arrow’ or flower of the sugar-cane were most 
* interesting. . He then direeted attention to the (— of coffee, 
É and fibres, and suggested that every endea should - 
* made "bs the Colonists to show what the capabilities of е islands 
* were, and to invite capitalists to invest their money in the cultural 
industries of the West Indies.” 
After the lecture was over, I accepted an invitation from Captain 
me of h 
SOAM p Potatoes and tomatoes been successfully grown on 
e lands and shipped to the United States as early as December of 
un year. The only drawback to the development of a large industry 
i 
Captain Berkeley deserves great credit for his — in this ина 
similar matters, He has shown the way to many new industries, and 
if the improved shipping facilities now under the considerations of the 
Government are fully carried out, it would be possible to embark in 
