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DISTRIBUTION OF PLANTS AND SEEDS. 



The distribution of plants in the island from ^the various Gardens- 

 amounted to the following numbers : — 





Economic. 



Ornamental. 



Total. 



Hope 



32,164 



15,093 



47,257 



Castleton 



1,135 



3,406 



4,541 



King's House 



1,200 



a 



1,200 



Hill G-arden 



1,525 



1,648 



3,173 



Total 



36,024 



20,147 



56,171 



About 11,000 seeds have been distributed from Castleton, and an 

 equally large number from the Hill Garden. 



Plants have also been sent to Kew Gardens, Botanic Station Barbados, 

 Botanic Garden, Demerara, J. B. Beach , F. Sander, Reasoner Bros. 



Seeds have been distributed to Botanic Gardens in the following 

 places : — 



British Isles. Kew, Cambridge, Oxford, Liverpool, Manchester, 

 Hull, Dublin, Edinburgh, Glasgow. 



Asia. India : Calcutta, Mungpoo, Darjeeling, Saharanpur, Lucknow, 

 Cawnpur, Bombay, Poona, Udaipur, Mysore, Ootacamund ; Ceylon ; 

 Straits Settlements ; Hong Kong. 



Australasia. Australia : Sydney, Brisbane, Rockhampton, Adelaide, 

 Port Darwin, Melbourne; Tasmania; New Zealand: Wellington, 

 Dunedin, Napier, Invercargill. 



America. W. Indies: Trinidad, Barbados, Martinique, Grenada, 

 St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Antigua, Dominica, Demerara, British 

 Honduras ; Canada : Ottawa, Montreal ; United States : Washington, 

 Louisiana, Harvard \ Brazil : Rio de Janeiro. 



Africa. Gold Coast, Lagos, Gambia, Cape Town, Graham's Town, 

 Port Elizabeth, King William's Town, Graaff Reinet, Uitenhage, Natal, 

 Mauritius. 



Seeds have also been distributed to Agri.-Hort. Soc. of India, Agri.- 

 Horti. Soc. of Madras, British Museum (Natural History), Hort. Soc. 

 London, Reasoner, J. B. Beach, Damman, Vilmorin, Carter, Sutton, 

 Veitch, Baron Sir F. Yon Mueller, F. Sander, Milner and Smith. 



DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION. 



Correspondence. 



The correspondence is an important item in the business of the 

 Department. 



Information sought has been on the following subjects : — cultivation 

 of economic plants, and their preparation; manures; pests, fungoid 

 and insect ; machinery ; native plants ; on Jamaica from correspondents 

 abroad wishing to settle, etc. 



