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ciable extent, but they look nice and green and should make good pro- 

 gress as soon as the proper season arrives. People are still planting 

 grapes extensively. Plenty of good bunches of black grapes are ripen- 

 ing. For want of thinning they are of only ordinarj^ quality, but with 

 a little care and skilled attention they might easily be made first-class. 

 I sent up seven baskets full to the Secretary of the Agricultural So- 

 ciety. 



I have given directions for the whole of the cleaned land at the 

 Grape Farm to be planted with grape cuttings. I think the slight 

 shade of the various crops now growing will prove beneficial to the 

 young vines ; in such a hot place it certainly will not be harmful. 



The remainder of the land should be cleaned and covered ready 

 for planting in the spring and and autumn. I do not recommend that 

 anything more than a very small trial of say three plants of any va- 

 riety other than Muscats be made. The common black is the best 

 black without a doubt for present purposes. The Muscats, however, 

 are so superior in flavour, that a good trial of these should be made. 

 There is reason to believe that they will thrive, as some plants of Mr. 

 Shaw's are doing well ; one plant which he got from Hope in May last 

 year, has made a growth of 30 feet. Some plants of Muscat Ham- 

 burgh have done fairly well also, but the other varieties do not appear 

 likely to thrive. 



Wednesday Feby. 16th — Visited Carmel, lectured and demonstrated 

 there on coffee and oranges and on tobacco-growing to about TO or 80 

 men and a number of women. 



Tuesday, Feb. 22nd. — St. Ann's Bay. Demonstrated on Mr. Nunes' 

 vines on pruniog, and illustrated the proper treatment of them by 

 means of the material found there. About 15 people attended, the 

 number would have been double as Mr. Nunes had taken the trouble to 

 properly advertise my coming, but unfortunately influenza was raging 

 in St. Ann's Bay. 



Manchester. 



Tuesday, March 1st, 1898. — Lectured at the Court House to a fairly 

 good meeting of about 30 men on cultivation, management of soils, 

 draining, manuring, liming, &c., and afterwards gave an ocular demon- 

 stration thereoD, also on pruning coffee. 



Wednesday, March 2nd. — Lectured and demonstrated at Devon on 

 the same topics with the addition of tobacco, about 30 people being 

 present. 



Friday, March 4th — Lectured and demonstrated at Walderston to 

 about 60 people who seemed very intelligent and very interested. 



General Remarks. 



I was very pleased to see the good quality of the coffee grown about 

 Christiana, but grieved to see the way in which the people spoilt it in 

 curing. 



I was much pleased to see the good result of an experiment in 

 forking and manuring land for ginger. 



A piece of land which had formerly been planted with ginger and 

 consequently was now looked upon as worthless, worn out, &c. had 

 been forked and manured simply with rotten cane trash. With this 

 simple treatment it had produced excellent ginger, thus showing that 

 ginger can be grown on land for a term of years. 



