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started and promising to do well. A few I gave to neighbours who 

 report that they are growing nicely. [E. citriodora] 



Dr. Manners, Bull Bay. — The Eucalpytus plants I got from you, 12 

 in number, 9 have grown well and are now 20 feet high. You can 

 almost see them grow. [E. robusta and microtheca.] 



Parochial Board, Hanover. — The plants supplied in 1893 have con- 

 tinued to grow, some are now from 6 to 8 to 9 feet high, look healthy 

 and will now do well. 



Mr. A. A Green, Milk River. — Only three of the lot in November, 

 1893, are growing. The plants were not so strong as the first lot sup- 

 plied and the very severe drought was sadly against them ; some of the 

 former ones are 25 ft high and are flourishing. [E melliodora.] 



APPENDIX III. 



Reports on Free Grants of Plants. 



Inspector General of Police, Kingston. — I potted out the best of them 

 in large pots and they are doing nicely. 



Surg. Lt. Col. C. "W. Moore Keys, Camp. — The plants are all doing as 

 well as the high wind of Camp will permit. They are tended carefully 

 and watered regularly, and not stinted in manure. Many of them have 

 made excellent progress, a few of them have died, not through want of 

 care, or want of health, but by under- ground and over- ground pests. 

 The Crotons and Hibiscus varieties have done best I think, and all of 

 the Aralia, The three varieties of Panax — dissectum, plumatum, and 

 excelsum ; have thriven remarkably well, and been free from attacks of 

 the scale insect. 



Revd. C. P Muirhead, Camp. — Of the 150 plants received for the 

 Franklin Town Mission Chapel, the greater number are doing well. 

 Some from the beginning did not thrive, others were cropped by goats. 

 Though the grounds are fenced with barbed wire and wire netting two 

 feet high, yet these pests slip in through the gates when an opportunity 

 offers, and plants do not thrive when once cropped by them. 



Revd. H. Nethercott, Stony Hill. — I have much pleasure in stating 

 that all the plants received from your department at Castleton took 

 root, thrived, and were really doing well when unfortunately some were 

 destroyed by persons cleaning the burial ground. The destruction of 

 the plants was purely accidental, and in no way intentional. The 

 plants w T hen received from Castleton were all in a healthy, vigorous 

 condition and did not suffer in any way from being transplanted. Three 

 or four Crotons, all of the same kind, lost their leaves but soon got new 

 ones. None of the other plants shed their leaves. I am glad to report 

 that the plants were in every way satisfactory. 



Revd. W. Y. Turner, Castleton. — In answer to your enquiry I may 

 say that the plants are all doing well and are being kept weeded, etc. 



Revd. S. Graham Shrimpton, Old Harbour. — Of the 200 plants which 

 I received from the Gardens in 1895, I am glad to state that now after 

 about 15 months they are thriving nicely. All of them took but the 

 dry weather was very trying and I lost about 6 of them —two Casuarinas 

 and four Roses. This free gift of plants has been a great boon and 

 now my Churchyard presents quite a pleasing appearance. 



Mr. A. C. Kennedy, Bluefields.— Most of the plants for the Blue- 

 fields Church were put out and did well, but horses got among them 



