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Of the 6 Imperial Lemons on sweet orange stocks, two have died, S 

 are looking fairly well, one has died back but is springing again. 



Of the 10 Imperial Lemons on Rough Lemons, 3 have died, the 

 others, with one exception, are looking extremely well. 



Of the 5 Grape Fruit, Castleton varieties, on Rough Lemons, one 

 has died, the others look well. 



Of the 6 Grape Fruits, Castleton variety, on sweet orange stocks, 3 

 have died, two look poorly, the remaining one looking very well. 



Of the 12 Grape Fruit on Rough Lemon stocks all are growing ex- 

 ceedingly well. 



The 4 Melrose shaddocks on Rough Lemons are all growing very 

 well. 



Of the 32 Navel Oranges on Rough Lemons, one has died, the rest 

 look now fairly well, but many of these have gummed considerably, 

 not so much at the collar, but in the branches, the formula recom- 

 mended in the Bulletin (Sept. 1887) has been tried for the gumming^ 

 and seems to be very effective. 



The grove has been extended by 6 Navel oranges, 14 Grape Fruits, 

 all on sour orange stocks. 



Mangoes. — The inarching of Bombay mangoes during the past year 

 has been very successful, chiefly owing to the raising of better kinds 

 of stocks after the methods mentioned in last year's Report. We have 

 been able for the first tirue to keep the supply of grafted plants equal 

 - to the demand which is'still small as these exquisite fruits are not well 

 known, and we have a stock on hand of about 50 grafted plants. 

 Seeds of Mexican mangoes, supposed to be something very superior, 

 have been received and a nice stock of plants raised. 



Several plants of mangoes imported some years ago from Martinique 

 have also fruited, one very freely, this is a fine fibreless mango with a 

 yellow skin and of good flavour, but not so good as our variety of the 

 Governor Grant Bombay mangoes, the Nagapoury. 



Ramie — The plantation has been kept clean but not extended. 



Ginger, — One acre of land was thoroughly forked up and thrown 

 into beds and planted with ginger, 1,000 feet of f inch galvanized 

 iron pipes with fittings, etc., being laid down to enable us to water it, 

 with the object of testing various manures. The result has been dis- 

 appointing and it has been decided to leave them in the ground until 

 next year. 



Canaigre — 12 roots of Ganaigre were planted and yielded a little 

 more than the weight put. The crop was planted out near the ginger 

 but unfortunately all but three plants were washed away during the 

 October floods, these plants look very much better than they did last 

 year. 



Tobacco. — The first planting of tobacco suffered severely from the 

 October floods but in spite of that, we have been very successful and 

 shall have seeds in abundance for distribution. The main crop has 

 been raised from Cuban seeds, but we are told by many Cubans that 

 our plants are better than the finest grown in Cuba. We have also a 

 square chain of land in Sumatra tobacco which has also grown well 

 and we shall have an abundance of seeds of this variety. Besides^ 

 these well known varieties wo have 5 other varieties. 



The object is primarily to raise seeds of Havana and Sumatra to- 



