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at Barbados, by Mr. Bovell. The reports of Professor 
Harrison and Mr. Jenman had spread over the world, 
and were thoroughly well-known to those who took an 
interest in the cultivation of the sugar cane. Only the 
other day he had seen that in America a seedling cane 
produced in the Botanic Gardens here was being grown, 
and was recommended to the sugar planters there. 
Experiments with seedling canes had been going on in this 
colony for many years past, and they were not entirely 
confined to the Botanic Gardens. Samples had been 
sent to planters throughout the Colony, and they were 
experimented with on various estates. Nothing could 
at the present moment be definitely asserted with regard 
to these canes. Some had proved successful, but as 
time went on they would have more definite information. 
He believed that outside the Botanic Gardens the largest 
experimenters in the Colony were the proprietors of 
Great Diamond and Peter^s Hall estates. It was hinted 
recently that the planters here were not inclined to 
exchange ideas with people in other countries, but that 
was not his experience as he had always found Demerara 
planters anxious to obtain information and most ready 
and generous in giving information. On the other hand 
it would be absolutely wrong to give a definite decision 
with regard to seedling canes, for instance, when their 
own information was only in embryo. In other countries 
experiments had been going on for the improvement of 
the yield of sugar. There was the lixiviation of megass 
for instance which was undertaken by large Egyptian 
fa6lories, but he pointed out what might prove suitable 
for one country might not prove adaptable to another. 
With regard to agriculture he was not one of those who 
imagined the sugar cane was the only panacea for the 
depression in this Colony. He fully believed the time 
would come when the mineral resources would, under 
proper management and with sufficient capital, be worked 
successfully. He also thought that in the future, when 
men with capital came here, they would find that in the 
interior lands other produ6ls than sugar cane could be 
grown successfully, and by that he meant profitably. 
With regard to the front lands, however — the lands 
