4 



To Parade Gardens ... 127 



To Castleton Gardens ... 200 



Sent out in exchange ... 103 



6,693 



Total number of Plants sent 



out from the Garden ... 27,049 

 Office work. — The work of the office is heavy, and especially the correspondence, 2,041 letters being 

 received, and 3,244 written, by the Superintendent. 



Visitors. — The number of visitors who signed the book was 1,125. 



Sisal Hemp Plantation. — The Sisal Hemp plants are growing fast but the weeding is expensive. 

 Sugar Cane Ground. — The canes have received careful attention during the year. The collection is 

 well known, and applications are frequentl}'^ received from many parts of the world for specimen canes. 

 The Superintendent is Mr. Wm. Cradwick. 

 The elevation of the garden is 600 feet above sea-level. 



The annual mean temperature is 77 . 4 F., and the average rainfall 52. 83 inches. 

 The amount of rain that fell during the year was 57.^2 inches. 



The mean temperature was 77 . 4°F. The Meteorological tables for the different months is given in 

 Appendix IV. 



Hill Garden. 



Roads. — The principal roads through the Plantation were cleaned, and several of them that required 

 repairs, were put in order by grading, opening drains, and filling in ruts. 



I^ences. — The dividing and line fences were all overhauled during the yaar, and are generally in good 

 order. 



Pastures, — These were all billed and cleaned during the j^ear. Feeding for stock at this elevation is 

 scanty and poor, and if the pastures are not regularly cleaned the grass would be exterminated by weeds 

 and bush. 



(harden. — The usual Gardening operations were carried on during the year. Trenching and manur- 

 ing beds and borders, cutting grass, pruning, raising and transplanting of annuals, &c., propaga.ion and 

 potting of Greenhouse plants, ferns and orchids, watering and weeding. 



The two slopes in the Garden have been planted with the Mexican Daisy ( Erigeron mucronatum. ) 

 These will look well when the Daisy thoroughly takes hold of the soil and spreads, and a great deal of 

 labour will be saved in cutting the grass on the slopes, which had to be done by cutlass, and never looked 

 neat. 



A considei able portion of the grass verge along the shrab border was renewed, the old turf having 

 become partly filled Avith haj^-grass and weeds, looked unsightly. The walks were re-gravelled. It is in- 

 tended to lay drain pipes across the walks at intervals to carry off the surface water, which accumulates 

 during heavy rains, and succeeds on each occasion, not only in cutting up the walks, but in washing away 

 a good portion of the sand and fine gravel. 



The two Rose beds, and the Rose border were thoroughly renovated and planted with new roses, and 

 the beds and borders have since been several times lightly forked over, and midched. 



Ej;perinie)ital Garden. — Peas : Experiments in the cultivation of peas were carried on, and the re- 

 sults were generally satisfactory. Tabular results of these experiments were published in the Bulletin. 



The finest crops were those yielded by seeds sown in March and April, the peas being fit for use in 

 May, June and July. But seeds sown in September, November and December produced good crops of 

 excellent peas ready for use in December, Janu :ry, February and March ; those sown in January, however, 

 producing peas fit for use in April, were not so successful. Of the varieties sown in Septembei-, Novem- 



ber and December, the following gave the most satisfactory results : — 



Name. Height. Name. Height. 



Duke of Albany ... 6 feet Carter's Balmoral Castle ... 5 



British Queen " ... 8 " " G. F. Wilson ... 5 " 



Laxton's Suprema ,.. 5 " Princess Royal ... 6^ " 



" Alpha ... 4 Marvel ... 



Prolific ... 5 " Kentish Invicta ... 5 " 



Carter's Empress ... 6 " Abundance ... 2| '• 



" Telegraph ... 7 " Early Sunrise ... 3 " 



Out of the 43 kinds grown at Cinchona, the following can be recommended for general cultiva- 

 tion : — 



Name. Height, Name. Height. 



Carter's Dignity ... 6 feet Carter's Empress ... 6 " 



" Balmoral Castle ... 5 " Abundance ... 2| " 



Telephone ... 6 " Marvel ... 6 " 



Telegraph ... 7 " Bishop's Long Podded ... 8^ *' 



G.F.Wilson ... 5 " Princess Royal ... 6^ " 



" First Crop ... 3^ ** Kentish Invicta ... 5 " 



Plants distributed free and in 

 exchange : 



Free grants (various) ... 4,470 



Eucalyptus ... 1,681 



To King's House Gardens ... 112 



