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Mr. D. Sanftleben, Port Antonio. — I regret the delay in replying to 

 your memorandum of the 1st May last ; a delay which has been caused 

 by my having to refer to the Officers in charge of the plants for report 

 and to my having been absent for the last three weeks. 



Gayle.— Three of the plants died shortly after being put in the 

 ground, but the remainder are doing extremely well. 



Easington. — Six Eucalyptus were supplied, but only one is alive now. 

 The others are doing very well indeed. 



Port Antonio. — Only six of the plants supplied for the Court House 

 are now alive. I am inclined to attribute the failure of the others to 

 the position of the place, which exposes the plants to the sea breeze and 

 salt air. 



Revd. W. S. Taylor, Enfield — Owing to the drought last year about 

 12 of the plants died. The rest are growing well. The roses flower- 

 ing; Crotons, etc. green and healthy looking, give a charming appear- 

 ance to the Church Yard. 



Revd. W. J. Maund, Bath. — When I left Port Royal last month all 

 the plants you kindly sent me were doing well. The Church certainly 

 looks very much better since the -advent of the plants. 



Revd. A. A. Hedmann, Clifton. — Though the severe drought which 

 came immediately after the planting out of the Free Grant of Plants 

 from the Botanical Gardens has destroyed some of the more delicate 

 plants, yet a good many have grown very nicely. The Eucalyptus 

 lants have all grown and some are over 6 feet in height The St. Mic- 

 aels Church Yard is looking very pretty with the beautiful ornamental 

 shrubs which have been planted out and are now in a flourishing con- 

 dition. 



Revd. J. J. Kendon, Linstead — All the Crotons are growing well. 

 Though only 9 months since planted they are about 2 feet 6 inches 

 high and spreading nicely. They are admired by everybody, of the 

 Palms one died. The 4 Eucalyptus (citriodora) plants are 12 feet high 

 and doing well, Besides the free grant of plants we have raised and 

 planted out 300 Crotons about half of which were from cuttings kindly 

 given from the Kingston Gardens We shall be thankful for a furher 

 supply of cuttings for another Churchyard soon. 



REPORTS ON ONIONS. 



His Honour I. R. Reece, Pedro. —I have obtained splendid returns 

 from this seed. The Red produced onions of fair size 6 to 9 ounces; 

 the white onions were of small size ; both of excellent flavour. These 

 seeds were the best I have ever seen. They produce strong seedlings, 

 none of which were lost. The seedlings were divided into two sets. 

 One set was planted in an open bed, i.e., a bed exposed to the sun all 

 day, the other in a bed on which only the afternoon sun could be ob- 

 tained. The onions planted in this latter bed were far superior (both in 

 point of ^ize and flavour) to those planted in the former. A quantity 

 of the white onions (of small size) were pickled, and are quite equal to 

 the small onions of Bermuda treated in a similar manner. 



Mr. Alex. Hopwood, Brown's Town. — The crop of onions raised is 

 very satisfactory ; although the entii e lot did not give large bulbs, the 

 proportion of good marketable onions which I got amply paid for the 

 cultivation. 



