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The Liberian Coffee bushes bore a good crop. There are less than 100 in the plantation and they 

 yielded 21 bushels. 



The Cocoa trees have been pruned, dead plants removed, and the ground hoed. 



Cocoa p ds to the n'lmber of 12,700 were purchased from settlers in the district and forwar.led to be 

 cured at the Hope Industrial School 



Specimens of 3 species of Vanilla were forwarded to Kew, and the one (V. planifolia, Andr.) most 

 suitable for cultivati n for commercial purposes was pointed out. Specimens of other Garden plants as 

 well as of native plants, were collected for the Departmental Herbarium. 



Visitors. — The number of names recorded in the Visitors' Book was 962, but this does not include 

 all who visited the Garden. 



Seeds collected. — Packets of seeds to the number of 71 were collected. Most of them were palm 

 seeds. 



Plants distributed. — The number of plants forwarded to Hope is as follows : — 



Roses 



2,621 



Vanilla 



88 



Palms 



2,400 



Rubber plants 



70 



Miscellaneous trees and shrubs 



3,227 



Mango trees 



27 



Kola 



245 



Crotons 



43 



Miscellaneous Fruit trees 



370 



Amherstia nobilis 



6 



Clove 



150 



Black Pepper plants 



5 



Cinnamon 



182 



Water Lilies 



12 



Ferns 



121 



Timber and Shade Trees . . . 



302 



Liberian Coffee ... 



171 







Ginger 



75 



Total 



7,494 



ants sold at the Gardens are as 



follows : — 







Roses 



670 



Vanilla 



30 



Crotons 



670 



Misc. Fruit and Econo- 





Misc. trees and shrubs . . . 



579 



mic plants 



530 



Palms 



623 



Total 



3,868 



Ferns 



352 



The total number of 



Orchids 



44 



plants distributed was ... 



11,362 



Liberian Coffee 



137 



Cacao Pods sold 



103 



Nutmeg 



286 



Nutmeg seeds sold 



152 



Ginger 



50 



Mace sold 



5| lbs. 



Mace sold 



21bs. 







Plants received. — The following plants received from Kew Gardens may be specially mentioned. 

 Attalea Guichere (Palmar) (1) 



Geonoma Princeps, Hort. Bull. (Palmge) Trop. Amer. (1) 



G. pumila, Lind. and Wendl. (Palmae) New Grenada. (1) 



G. Schottiana, Mart. (Palmae) Brazil Guiana (1) 



Or. Spixiana, Mart. (Palmae) Rio Negro (Amazons) (1) 



Piper Cubeba, Linn. f. " Cubebs" (Piperaceae) Borneo, Java (3) 



Platycerium aethiopicum, Hook. (Filices) Trop. Afi'. (1) 



Tylophora asthmatica, Web. (Asclepiadeae) India, Ceylon. (1) 



Vanilla planifolia, Andr. "Vanilla" (Orchideae). Malaya Mexico. (3) 



Zingiber Zerumbet, Rose. (Scitamineae). India, Ceylon, Java. (1) 



Correspondence. The number of letters written during the year amoimted to 601, and the number 

 received to 367. 



Mr. E. Campbell has acted as Superintendent. 

 The elevation above sea-level is 580 feet. 



The average rainfaU. is 110.01 inches per annum, and the annual mean temperature is 76.2° F. The 

 rainfall during the year was 126.47 inches, and the mean temperature was 74.2° F. 



The heaviest rainfaU was in November, with 32.92 inches, and November 29.32 inches. On 

 the 29th October 19 inches of rain fell in 24 hours. The meteorological results for the different months 

 is given in Appendix iv. 



Kingston Public Garden. 

 Mr. John Campbell was placed in charge of the Garden in October. 



The great feature of the year has been the erection of Gates on the East and West sides, and the 

 opening of the passages by the fountains at each corner. The erection of East and West gates was re- 

 commended in the Report for 1888-89, and it is satisfactoiy to see that this which was part of the origi- 

 nal design for the garden, has been carried out. The Report for 1889-91 pointed out that the facilities 

 thus offered as a thoroughfare would have a beneficial effect in attracting many more persons to the gar- 

 den. With the increase in the number of thoroughfares during the year, with the weekly performances by 

 the excellent band of the West India Regiment, and the lighting of the garden at night by electricity, 

 this has now in truth become the City Garden and is much appreciated by the inhabitants. 



The grass lawns have suffered very much in appearance on account of the trampling over them on 

 Band nights, and by people not keeping to the paths as they pass through. It will become necessary 

 to adopt the plan used in some of the London Parks, and enclose the grass by a railing, otherwise one 

 of the greatest beauties of a garden, especially of one in a town — the fresh green expanse of grass — 



