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Mr. A. J. Webb, Laughlands, St. Ann. — The onion seed came up 

 well but did not bulb to any size. I do not think they are suited to 

 the coast as it is too hot. 



Mr. A. N. Sutherland, Moneague, St. Ann. — The seeds were sown, 

 but did not come up at all. 



Mr. Alex. Hopwood, Brown's Town, St. Ann. — The onions did not 

 bulb larger than eschalots. I planted them in a bed well mixed with 

 stable manure, and the rainfall was continuous up to the time of bulbing* 



Mr. C. L. "Walker, Walker's Wood, St. Ann. — On account of the 

 heavy October seasons, a great deal of the onion seed sent by you was 

 washed away, I however made another trial of a few I had left which 

 gave a splended return, many of the single onions weighed over 16 

 ounces, those that grew in clusters weighed over 21 pounds. 



Mr. C. Helwig, Alexandria, St. Ann. — The onions were an utter 

 failure. They sprang up very nicely but never grew higher than about 

 six inches, possibly the drought affected them. 



Mr. Cover, Lime Tree Garden, Brown's Town, St. Ann. — Very few 

 of the onion seeds grew to anything, but what did were very good. 

 I shall be glad to have some fresh ones to try again. 



Mr. Archer, Cave Yalley, St. Ann. — The onion seeds you sent me 

 came to nothing. I attribute the failure to the heavy rainfall in 

 April, 12.87 in. 



Mr. Gilbert Brown, Pedro, St. Ann. — I am sorry to inform you that 

 the onion seeds never came up. 



Mr. W. T. Groves, Spicey Hill, Ocho Eios, St. Ann.— The first lot 

 of seeds did not grow at all, the last lot did fairly well, but not so well 

 as last year. 



Mr. C. Costa, Brown's Town, St. Ann. — I divided the onion seed you 

 sent me last year into 3 lots for planting at different times, to see 

 which did best. 



The first lot planted in November did remarkably well, produced a 

 good crop, and some of the onions were exceptionally fine. 



The other lot of seed planted in December and January did badly. 



Mr. A. J. Hart, St. Ann's Bay, St. Ann.— The Bermuda onion 

 seeds sent me were planted and turned out well, the onions vary- 

 ing from 3 to 10 ozs. 



Mr. Townend, Laughlands, P.O., St. Ann. — The onion seeds were 

 not successful. I prepared the ground well, but I think the seeds 

 were sown too late in the year although well watered through the dry 

 weather, only a few poor specimens survived. I intend to try again. 



Mr. T. W. Fletcher, Ocho Eios, St. Ann. — The onion seeds were dis- 

 tributed amongst several small settlers — what was sown grew well but 

 the drought overtook them and the parties having no means of water- 

 ing, they died off except a few plants which brought fine onions. 



Mr. B. E. Fullerton, Duncans, Trelawny — The onion seeds you sent 

 me last year were sown and sprouted freely, and as the weather was 

 favourable I got a fine crop. Some of the bulbs measured fully 8 inches 

 round. Both varieties —red and white — did well. I made ready sale. 



Hon. J. W. Fisher, Stewart Town, Trelawny. — The onion seed did 

 not prove a success, very few came to maturity, whether it was owing 

 to the wrong season, or excess, or absence of rain, I cannot say but 

 those that did grow (about a dozen) were of fair size and flavour. 



