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Monday, 17th May. — Lectured at Mount Moriali at 2 p.m. about 40 

 adults present, subject treated, the growing, pruning and curing of 

 coffee, also the growing and pruning of oranges ; rain prevented any 

 demonstration in the fields. 



Tuesday, IStb. — Johns Hall. Lectured on growing, pruning and 

 curing of coffee, also growing budding and pruning of oranges. Thia 

 being a wet district and the soil heavy and retentive, particular stress 

 was laid on the proper methods of draining, and the benefit [to be de- 

 rived from a properly carried out system of drainage. Demonstrated 

 on pruning coffee and budding oranges. 



Wednesday, 19th. — Clarksonville. Gave a demonstration on Mr. 

 Head^s property, on the proper way to manure, fork, and to prune 

 coffee; also how to bud and prune oranges. Some coffee which Mr. 

 Head had taken in hand since the occasion of my last visit and had 

 forked and manured, but not so effectually as it might have been done, 

 had improved wonderfully. The improvement no doubt would have 

 been still more marked but for the late severe drought. 



Lectured at noon in the Baptist Chapel to about 100 people on the 

 same subjects as at the two previous centres. Afterwards gave de- 

 monstration on pruning and manuring coffee, and on budding oranges. 

 This would have been continued to a greater length but for the rain 

 which put a stop to it after about an hour. 



Thursday, 20th. — Lectured and demonstrated at Stepney. Only 

 a small audience was present here, but those who were present were 

 people who attended on the occasion of my previous visit to this place, 

 and who had made use of my suggestions, and were keen to see further 

 demonstrations. 



Friday. 21st. — Lectured and demonstrated at Linton Park. This is 

 a remarkably fertile district only as yet partially settled. This is one 

 of the finest districts for settlers that I have ever seen. The people 

 were particularly interested in the budding, as the district is full of 

 young sour orange trees, which they are anxious to turn into grape 

 fruit. 



Saturday, 22nd. — Visited the cultivation of Mr. Moulton Barrett, of 

 Stewart Town. Mr. Barrett is growing grafts and was very anxious 

 to get my advice on them, he had also an acre of excellent Irish pota- 

 toes. 



Monday, 24th, — Lectured and demonstrated at Lower Buxton. The 

 people were quite enthusiastic over my coming. Some of them have 

 been successful with the budding, others have treated their decaying 

 coffee with lime and seen the beneficial results. I was unable to visit 

 the fields where this had been done as it rained heavily all the after- 

 noon ; the demonstrations were given before the lecture while the peo- 

 ple were gathering. 



Tuesday, 25th. — Lectured and demonstrated at G-rateful HalL 

 Here again the people were quite interested. One man after my last 

 visit had treated three of his poor drooping coffee trees with lime. 

 These trees I went and saw with all the people who had attended the 

 lecture, and there those three trees stood out in bold relief through the 

 coffee walk, being vigorous, covered with young growths with dark 

 healthy green leaves, — the untreated trees being still yeUow and sickly- 



