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REPORTS OF SUPERINTENDENTS. 

 Hope Gardens. 



The following Report is by Mr. Win. Cradwick, Superintendent : — 



Nursery. 



I stated in my annual report for 1895-96 that the importance of the 

 Nursery at Hope could hardly be over estimated. When one looks at 

 the list of plants distributed from Hope during the past year I think 

 it will be admitted that the statement was correct. 



We have endeavoured to send out the best plants possible, and to 

 bestow the greatest care in the packing and despatching of them. We 

 have to work under the most adverse circumstances, as we have practi- 

 cally no shelter under which to pack and address plants. The ma- 

 jority of them are sent away during the rainy seasons and very often 

 we are compelled to work out in drenching rain at the risk of catching 

 cold with all its attendant ills, or disappoint people who have ordered 

 plants. 



The same care has been bestowed on the appearance of the Nursery 

 as formerly, and with the same difficulty as regards our nomadic la- 

 bourers. 



The remarks made in my last report with reference to seedlings still 

 hold good, the treatment with kerosine being almost a specific against 

 their being carried off by insects. 



