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Colonies mentioned have been successful in adding greatly to the interest 
of the Exhibition ; and they deserve to be highly commended for the 
enterprise shown by them in supporting what is undoubtedly the most 
successful Exhibition, so far, held in any portion of the West Indies. 
5. The exhibits of the Windward Islands occupy positions on the 
northern side of the central dome. The St. Vincent court is to the 
planned and arranged by Mr. P. C. Cork, the Honorary Commissioner, 
and Mr. T. B. C. Musgrave, Superintendent for St. Vincent. The 
results of the labours of these gentlemen are apparent in the very taste- 
ful and successful way in which the various articles are displayed, and 
the facility with which they can be examined by those specially 
interested in them 
6. I may say at once that both in the number of articles displayed 
and in the manner in which they have been prepared the exhibits in 
the St. Vincent Court are of exceptional merit. simple enumeration 
of them covers seven pages in the official catalogue. This last state- 
ment, however, gives but a very poor idea of “the real nature an 
character of the exhibits. They co onsist of nearly eg. relating 
to the datore and vegetable produetions of St. Vincent, and suggest in 
a striking manner the numberless resources of the island capable of 
being developed under suitable circumstances. 
7. The principal articles consist of sugar, rum, arrowroot, starches, 
tapio ca, cacao, coffee, numerous fibres, tanning materials, ginger, nut- 
megs, cinnamon, mace, black pepper, turmeric, tobacco, cigars, carib 
baskets and wicker work, medicinal plants, honey and bees 
in syrup and crystallised, jams, jellies, walking sticks, native timbers, 
native se Pec fishing lines, carib stone hatchets, vegetable oils, building 
stone and lime, antimony, native hats, native made leather, spa mineral 
waters, and an inlaid table (containing over 5,000 pieces of 30 native 
s.) Of purely botanical collections Mr. George W. Smith has con- 
tributed a mgr set, numbering about 200 species, of St. Vincent 
ferns; Mr. D. A. MacDonald a set of St. Vincent mosses and ferns ; 
and Miss Maling a set of St. Vincent grasses. The Government of St. 
Vincent exhibits a collection of native plants, age by Mr. Geo 
Smith, possessing medicinal and commercial value. To each plant a a 
few notes are added explanatory of the use for which it is adapted. 
8. Possibly the most cime and suggest ive of the raw products чт 
St. Vincent are its excellent fibres and fibrous materials.. There ar 
several very complete sets of these. One set, prepared by Mr. Powell, 
Curator of the Botanical Station, exhibits the ati in a remarkably 
fine condition. Such fibres as “lapite” prepared fro wild variety 
of the common pine-apple; “ gri-gri” skilfully prepar a: son the young 
leaves of a quem ; and * china” prepared from the aen of a a " 
too short to compete inden ty i e best sorts of Sisal hemp, as 
roduced in the Bahamas and нев The woods of St. Vincent are 
well shown by Mr. 53 samples), Mr. J. G. Nanton 
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(6 samples), and Mr. H. Powell ir 65 samples). There are severa 
exhibits of turnery work, illustrating the character ot the St. Vincent 
woods. Few West Indian Colonies can produce better woods. 
9. The articles of Carib manufacture are a special production of St. 
` Vincent. It is one of the few places, if not indeed the only place, in the 
