A FLYING TRIP TO JAMAICA. 
On Board the Sarnia — A Word Concerning the Island of Jamaica — Its 
Discovery, Formation, Aborigines, Nomenclature, Rainfall, Government and 
Location — Information from the Department of Agriculture — A Visit to 
Castleton Gardens— Something About the Rubber Produced There and the 
Conditions Attending It — Hope Gardens — Hevea and Castilloa — The Milk 
Withe. 
J 
AMAICA — peaceful, fertile, rich in cheap, free labor, and close 
to the United States through location and language, will some 
day, perhaps very soon, be an exporter of India-rubber gathered 
from annual crops. The beginning of experimental planting may be 
even before this book goes to press — hence the story of the island, briefly 
told. 
KINGSTON STREET, KINGSTON. 
I had long wished to visit it and see for myself how it sized up 
as a place for planting rubber. This wish was intensified when Pro- 
fessor X. L. Britton, director of the X T ew York Botanical Gardens, 
leased the English tropical experiment station at Chincona, and assured 
a future for American botanical work in which rubber can hardly be 
ignored. I was more than glad, therefore, when my journeyings made 
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