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Seeds Distributed. 



*W. Indian Cedar (Cedrela odorata) ... 33 quarts 



Cinchona officinalis ... 2 ounces 



Tree Tomato (Cyphomandra betacea) ... 10 ounces 



Tea (Camellia Thea) ... 900 seeds 



English Peas ... 18 packets 



Indigo (Indigofera Anil) ... 1 lb. 



Miscellaneous seeds ... 9 packets 



The elevation of the garden is 4,907 feet above sea-level. 

 The average annual mean temperature is 62° 9 F. and the average 

 annual rainfall 92.25 inches for 12 years. 



The amount of rain that fell during the year was 127.27 inches. 

 May, July and December were the wettest months, and January was 

 the driest. 



The mean temperature was 61° 6 F. ; the Meteorological tables for the 

 different months are given in Appendix VI, page 96. 



KING'S HOUSE GARDENS. 



A great deal of time has been taken up in hoeing, weeding and clean- 

 ing the road to King's House. Twenty-six chains of the road had be- 

 come so rotten that it had to be dug up, stones collected off the sides 

 of the road, put on the dug ground and well rolled ; this made as good 

 a road as was possible. The whole road is very much in need of a 

 good coating of gravel, an expense the gardens' grant cannot stand, if 

 all the ground now under cultivation is to be kept up. Half the traf- 

 fic is by vehicles going from the Hope Road to the Constant Spring 

 road and vice versa. 



The Borders on the Avenue have been in good condition most of 

 the year. They are however a heavy tax on the garden-grant. In dry 

 weather it takes five men all their time to keep the plants in anything 

 like good condition. There are at least 20 more taps needed on the 

 borders to water with proper efficiency. These borders have been well 

 dug and manured three times during the past year, a number of small 

 plants have been planted, old ones dug out, and others transplanted. 

 These borders will be more expensive to work in the future than they 

 have been in the past, as the more roots there are in the ground the 

 more watering they will need. It will also take twice as long to fork 

 the borders now as it did the first and second years, for the borders are 

 getting so full of roots that half the men's time is taken up with cut- 

 ting out a certain number of roots. 



All the young Palms and Ficus-trees on the Avenue have had the soil 

 trenched to a depth of 18 ins. and 4 ft. wide with plenty of manure 

 dug in. Trenching or deep digging is the best spent money in any 

 garden ; it gives the soil so much more power to absorb moisture. When 

 ground is well dug it does not need one half the artificial watering as 

 when the ground is allowed to remain in an unbroken state. 



The Croton bed in the Avenue has been re-arranged. 



Fifty-four chains of verge on the Avenue have been dug up, manured 

 and replanted with Bahama grass. 



Most of the garden-walks have been re-gravelled, hoed, weeded and 

 cleaned twice a week. 



