ago. Nos. 1 and 2, mentioned l>y him |>. lit, aiv mixed; No. 3, his 

 best sort, are separate. Yoar Lordship may, if you think fit, order a 

 comparison to l>e made, by some dealers in spice, between these ami the 

 cloves we usually receive from the Dutch. I shall only add that when 

 I applied for information on the same subject to an eminent wholesale 

 dealer in that article, the only answer I obtained was that he thought 

 me grievously deceived in supposing the cloves to be the produce of the 

 West Indies, he being absolutely certain they came from the East. 



Tn case your Lordship should think lit to order any explanatory 

 matter to be added to Mr. Buee's dissertation, I enclose a list of the 

 u-ef'ul plants cultivated in the royal gardens at the Isle of France in 

 i7i)(), and at that time ready for distribution among the colonist-. The 

 publication of Mich a document will not only show the attention paid by 

 the French nation, while under their ancient covcrnmeiit, to the trans- 

 portation of useful plants from one part of the globe to another, but 

 set an example to our Royal (hardens at Saint Vincent's, instituted for 

 similar purposes, though p<>s-il.ly not supplied with equal funds,* and 

 will also encourage the West India planters to apply for and receive 

 such plants, of which there are many, as are now there ready for 

 delivery. 



I have, &c. 



Earl of Liverpool. (Signed) Joseph Banks. 



Mr. Thomas Rutton to Mr. William Fawkexek. 

 Sir, Charing Cross, 14th November 1*796. 



I take the liberty of request ing you to represent to the Right 



Honourable the Lords ..I the Committee ot Council appointed for the 

 Consideration of all Matters relating to Trade and Foreign Plantations— 



ject of the cloves [from Dominica], who, upon examining the samples, 

 produced by the Lords to Messrs. Bourdillon. Aruaitd, Nanson, and 



Wm. Fawkener, Esq. (Signed) Thomas Button". 



n> the clove tree, M. lStu'r \v;i- instrumental in 

 3 Dominica "the bread fruit, the cinnamon the Mack pepper, and 



of which," he savs, -1 am indebted lo Mr. Anderson, of 1 lV Maj-tCs 

 Botanic Garden at St. Vincent." ( )f the cinnamon tree lie writes in 

 le last paragraph of h's report as follows: ■■ Ihning succeeded in pro- 

 pagating the cinnamon tree from slips, and from them having now a 

 ^i-f^- many trees in my possession, this will he the subject ot my 

 future remarks. I will only observe at present that hedge- mi^ht be 

 made of that tree to shelter other productions, and by thai means 



The subsequent history of M. Bu 



