48 The Journal of the Royal 
Agriculture for the W. I., that tropical fruit did not 
need cold chambers, but however that might be, the 
subsidised line to Jamaica had them. However, the 
Society might try the experiment and he hoped the 
members would endorse the a6lion of the Dire6lors who 
had agreed to spend a sum not exceeding $480 for the 
trial. He was perfe6lly certain that there was a market 
somewhere for their fruits, but whether they could get 
them there in good condition remained to be proved. 
Fruit was brought here in ice ; he did not know whether 
it would come better otherwise. In the meantime 
they might try the experiment without ice and 
then if the contra6lors could be persuaded to put in 
cold chambers perhaps it might be a benefit to all con- 
cerned. He moved that the expenditure of $480 be 
approved, and proposed that the Committee be Messrs. 
Thos. Garnett, F. W. Collier, A. Summerson, Luke M. 
Hill, C. G. A. Wyatt, J. W. Conrad and R. A. Barclay. 
Mr. Luke M. Hill proposed the addition of the Hon. 
B. Howell Jones, but that gentleman said he would be 
leaving the colony shortly ; he would, however, assist the 
Committee as far as lay in his power. 
On the suggestion of the Rev. W. B. Ritchie, Mr. 
T. S. Hargreaves was added to the Committee. 
The Hon. B. Howell Jones seconded the motion . He 
said that as far as his experience had gone, oranges did 
not require cold chambers. Those he had sent to 
London arrived in perfe6l condition. All that was 
wanted was perfe6l ventilation, good packing and proper 
sele6lion. He thought the proposed a6lion of the Society 
was a step in the right dire6lion and that if successful it 
might lead small cultivators to pay more attention to fruit. 
