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the transplanting. This is with perhaps the exception of Gros Col- 

 mar, the most vigorous I have seen ; growing nearly 40 feet during 

 last season, the canes made being nearly two inches in diameter. 



Of other varieties tried Gros Colmar h>»s turned out a failure, it 

 produces large quantities of big bunches, which have large berries up 

 to th^ time when they begin to colour, then they split and fall off. 



Monukka and Trebbiano have also been given an extensive trial but 

 have failed to produce any fruit. A large number of varieties have 

 been received from the Royal Horticultural Society's Gardens, Chis- 

 wick. 



Many plants have been raised; two or three plants of each variety 

 have been planted out for a trial at Hope, the rest being distributed to 

 the public. 



Persian varieties have also been received and are growing well. 



The following varieties of American species have been received and 

 planted out, but at present are not looking very promising. Delaware, 

 Hartford, Concord, Niagara, Mailtra, Catawba, Moore's Early, Empire 

 State, Yves. 



At present the methods of cultivation followed are almost entirely 

 English, and what is known as the extension system. I have followed 

 this plan, for the following reasons : — (1) that I thoroughly under- 

 stand it ; (2) that the enormous growths made by the vines in Jamaica 

 seem to indicate that the repressive measures carried out by the Con- 

 tinental field grape growers would entail endless labour, with so far as 

 I can see at present, no particular object to be gained. We have, 

 however, this year started to give the Continental methods a trial. 



Pines. As stated in my report for last year experiments in manur- 

 ing pines were being carried out, artificial manures, ashes and farmyard 

 manure were used, but no result from either was visible. 



As far as I am able to judge in the short time that the pines have 

 been under observation, ' much seems to depend on the size and age of 

 the sucker which is used for planting also on the time of the year at 

 which it is planted. A good stout healthy sucker; about 15 inches 

 long, planted just after the heavy October seasons seems to be the right 

 kind, and seldom fails to make a good strong plant which will fruit 

 the following year. Large suckers planted out in the spring time start 

 to fruit almost immediately and by so doing exhaust themselves. 



There are two well defined varieties of Ripley Pine to begin with, 

 usually called the red and the green ; the red has a plain red leaf, the 

 green has a pale green leaf, with red stripes situated on different parts 

 of the leaf, the stripes being very pronounced in some plants varying 

 from a dark red stripe an inch in diameter to none at all, as far as my 

 observations go at present it is only when the Green Ripley has the 

 broad dark red stripe and that situated in the centre of the leaf that 

 the plant is worth growing; the totally green leafed plant, or the plant 

 with a narrow stripe especially when the stripe is on the edge of the 

 leaf instead of in the centre is not worth anything, the fruit produced 

 usually having holes near the base into which ants creep and by eat- 

 ing the fruit start it rotting. 



Whether good cultivation would improve the varieties and produce 

 a preponderance of plants with the correct stripes, whether bad culti- 

 vation causes marking to deteriorate, can only be demonstrated by 



