JAMAICA. 



BULLETIN 



OF THE 



BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT. 







Yol, VI 



New Series 



Appendix, 1899. 



App. 



Report of the Director on the Department of Public Garden* and 

 Plantations for tlie year ended o\.st March 1899. 



CONTENTS: 



Economic Plants 

 Bananas 

 Citrus 

 Cocoa 

 Coffee 

 Grapes 

 Kola 

 Mangoes 

 Nutmegs 

 Pine Apples 

 Ramie 

 Rubber 

 Sugar Cane 

 Tea 



Tobacco 



Bulletins 



Library 



Herbarium 



Practical Instruction 



Apprentices from Gold Coast 



Apprentices from Jamaica 



Boys from Jamaica High School - 



Report by Superintendent on progress 



Planter's opinion of the value of the training 



Hope Industrial School 



Travelling Instructor 



Agricultural Conference at Barbados 



Experiment Station Scheme 



Cinchona Plantations 



Reports of Superintendents 



Hope Gardens - 229 



Castleton Garden - - - • 232 



Hill Gardens .... 233 



Kingston Public Garden ... 236 



King's House Garden and Grounds - - 237 



Bath Garden .... 238 



Appendix : Meteorological Tables - - - 239 



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