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Bulletins. 



The Bulletins published during the year contained [articles on the 

 following subjects 

 Satin Wood. 

 Pea-nut or Pindar-nut. 

 Oil Tree. 



Coneys and Nutmeg Tree. 



Notes on Recent Additions to the Gardens. 



Reasons for Cultivating the Soil. 



Commercial Fertilisers. 



Coccidge, or Scale insects. 



Ramie. 



Ferns — Synoptical List. 



Grape Industry. 



How to gather Logwood Seed. 



Leguminous plants for green manuring. 



Barnyard Manure. 



Movements of Plants. 



Analysis of Sugar Cane. 



Elementary notes on Jamaica Plants. 



Cabinet Woods : Market Report. 



Rhythmic growth in Citrus. 



Ceara Rubber. 



Carob or Locust Bean Tree. 



Citric Acid. 



Plants grown in Castleton Gardens. 



The History of the Public Gardens and Plantations. 



Notes on Orchids. 



Cocoa in Trinidad, Venezuela and Grenada. 

 Rubber. 



Note on Ceara Rubber, 

 Wax Palms of the Andes. 

 Oka of Peru. 



Agricultural Chemistry of Cocoa. 



Correspondence. 

 The correspondence has been as large as usual. It is impossible to 

 attend to all the foreign letters that are addressed to me, and I have 

 had to adopt some rule in dealing with them. I answer letters of en- 

 quiry asking for information about the Island and its products, from 

 persons who are thinking of settling here ; I try to help those who 

 have any claim on the Island by reason of being countrymen, or being 

 willing to reciprocate ; but wherever there already exists a botanic gar- 

 den, I think it only right to confine my correspondence to the Officer 

 in charge, and leave him to supply information, seeds, plants, &c., to 

 local people. 



Field Instruction. 



Mr. Cradwick's work is exceedingly important, and it would be well 

 to vote such money as would allow him to devote his whole time to it ; 

 — say, £400 for travelling expenses, and £250 for a Superintendent 

 to take his place at Hope. 



It has been remarked that it would be well that Mr. Cradwick's in- 

 struction should be more systematic, and on the lines of that given by 



