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ing of large coffee plants, the application of lime to land where the 

 coffee trees were suffering from the want of it. He showed me trees 

 which at the time of my visit last year had not a single leaf on them, 

 and now had recovered to a marvellous extent. 



Lectured at Philadelphia to about 70 people, more than half of whom 

 were land-owners, the subjects being the same. This is the first time 

 I have visited this place but the people seemed keenly alive to their 

 lack of knowledge of the proper methods of cultivation. 



Thursday, March 5th. Demonstrated at Brown's Town on pruning 

 coffee and orange trees. 



Lectured at Grateful Hill. This is a new centre also and is the centre 

 of a number of people who have a hard struggle. They were formerly 

 employed on the now abandoned sugar estates. I demonstrated to them 

 on pruning and manuring coffee. 



Friday, March 6th. Visited Tobolski and had a long consultation 

 with Mr. Young about Coffee Mr Young had applied some lime to his 

 coffee before my last year's visit, but had not paid much attention or 

 attached much importance to it. The importance he now attaches to it 

 will be understood when I say that he is now burning three large kilns 

 of lime for the sole purpose of applying it to his coffee. I gave him also 

 practical instruction how to bud and how to prune his orange trees. 

 He had considerably damaged many of his orange trees by improper 

 pruning, not so much because he did not know the way the trees should 

 be pruned, as that be did notretlise the importance of the proper me- 

 thods, or the harm that could b> wrought b} T improper methods 



Lectured at Bethan}- to about 40 people. This is the se ond visit to 

 this place and the people were much in teres', ed; demonstrated on coffee 

 pruning, manuring, etc., orange pruning and budding. At Dehany 

 last year I showed the people how to bud, putting four Tangierine buds 

 on to a sour orange stock, all these grew and intensely interested the 

 people. The buds put on in August last have attained a growth of 

 42 inches, 



General Report on Brown's Town District. 

 The chief crops are Coffee, Pimento, Ground Provisions, Bananas and 

 now Oranges. 



The peasantry are ignorant of the. proper methods of pruning Coffee 

 trees, they attach little value to manure, or to the efficacy of lime. 



They have known nothing of the need of air and light, as shown by 

 the way they crovd up their small patches of coffee, planting the trees 

 in some cases less than 2 feet apart. Nor were they aware of the 

 immense damage which can be wrought by parasites. 



Proper shade for their coffee has also been much neglected. 



St. Mary. 



March 16th, Monday. Demonstrated at 11 o'clock, about a dozen 

 people beiug present including the proprietor, in the fields of Quebec, 

 on the curing of coffee and cocoa, toe best kinds of cocoa to grow and 

 how to plant the same, also on budding oranges. 



Lectured in the Town Hall at Port Maria at 5 o'clock in the evening 

 to about 70 persons on the products mentioned, demonstrating the 

 process of budding and grafting by means of soma branches of orange 

 trees. The audience here had any number of questions to ask, most of 

 which were purposeful and to the point. 



