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1 cannot however find that this plant was given a fair trial. It 'was 

 my father's opinion that the cultivation of textile plants was one of 

 great importance, and " second only to the cultivation of the Sugar 

 Cane ; " he also believed that textile plants were destined at no very 

 distant peiiod to add materially to the permanent prosperity os the 

 Island. 



The undeimentioned Medals were gained by my father for exhibits 

 he prepared and sent to the various International Exhibitions of the 

 world : — 



1. Silver Medal, for an exhibit of Shrubby Calceoiaiias at the Hor- 

 ticultural Society of Arts, London, on May 13, 1837. 



2 Silver Medal for Nectarines at the Horticultural Society, Lon- 

 don, 11th July, ; 837. 



3. Silver Medal for Fibres, London ExhiUrion, February, 1862. 



4. Bronze Medal for Fibres and Basts. London Exhibition, 1862. 



5. Silver Medal Ditto ' Dublin, 1865. 



6. Bronze Medal Ditto Dublin, ! 65. 



7. Silver Medal Ditto International Exhibition, 

 Erfurt, Prussia, August, 1865. 



Copies of the Annual Botanical Reports by my father from 1856 to 



1866, inclusive, in manuscript form, are in my possession. 



The Office of Island Botanist was abolished on the 1st of October, 



1867, when my father retired from the Public Service. 



26th October, 1901. 



FUMIGATION OF IMPORTED PLANTS. 



A. W. L. Hemjiixg, 



By His Excellency Sir Augustus William Lawson Hemming, 

 Knight Grand Cross of the mos Distinguished Order of 

 Saint Michael and Saint George, Taptain-General and Go- 

 vernor-in-Chief in and over the Island of Jamaica, and its 

 Dependencies. 



A PROCLAMATION. 



WHEREAS by a Proclamation dated the seventh day of Septem- 

 ber, and made under the authority of Section 1 of Law 4 of 

 1884, (The Seeds and Plants Importation Law 1884,) it was among 

 other things proclaimed and ordered that immediately on the impor- 

 tation into this island of any plants, cuttings, buds or grafts, and of 

 any goods, packages, coverings or things in which such plants, cut- 

 tings, buds or grafts, hereinafter referred to under the general term 

 of " proclaimed articles" might be packed" they should be subjected 

 to a thorough process of fumigation to be hereafter decided upon. 



-And whereas the Governor in Privy Council has since decided upon 

 adopting the process of fumigation hereinafter set forth for the pur- 

 pose of completely destroying all animal or vegetable parasites which 



