$ PB0CEED2NGS OF THE SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION. 
These remarks on one or two of many points of like im- 
portance that would present themselves, and require to he 
dealt with in a special manner in prosecuting the cultiva- 
tion of the Ramie here, serve to show that its introduction 
would not be unattended with difficulties incident to the 
peculiar conditions of the place ; to meet which, special 
intelligence for the acquisition of accessories, and their 
application in a manner to lead to profitable results would 
be required. In fact the system of culture must necessarily 
be very different from, and much more expensive than, 
that indicated in the Circular of the American Ramie 
Fibre and Mining Company as being practised with suc- 
cess at New Orleans ; also that specified as the Indian 
and China method in Dr. MacGrowan’s Eeport to the Agri- 
Horticultural Society of India. * 
The particulars of the system of culture of the Rami© 
followed in India and China, as given in the Journal of 
the Agri-Horticultural Society of India, which were em- 
bodied in a Circular Despatch issued by the Secretary for 
the Colonies in 1867, and subsequently published in ab- 
stract in the proceedings of this Association, show with 
striking clearness that this cultivation is not less difficult 
than that of the sugar-cane or cotton plant. The results 
of the crop so clearly depending on local influences and 
skilled manipulation in dealing with the growing plant, as 
well as with the fibre, much sagacity in superintendence 
and precision in effecting details — ability for which can 
only be acquired after a long course of training — are in- 
dispensable to insure their being satisfactory. 
* See Proceedings of the Scientific Association of Trinidad* 
vol. i., pp 187, 199, 201. 
