108 TlMEHRI, 
there seems to be some indication that the cultivation of 
these two articles is at last being more and more largely 
undertaken. We cannot pass without notice the splendidly 
large cocoa pods exhibited by Mr. TlRIN of Surinam, or 
the fine Liberian coffee sent by Dr. H. A. A. NlCHOLLS, 
of Dominica. But as regards the mass of home exhibits 
in this whole class, we can but reiterate our complaint 
that they are for the most part produced merely spas- 
modically, for Exhibition purposes, and do not indicate 
any constant industry. 
Some notice should also be paid to the very consider- 
able exhibit of rice by the free East Indian immigrants, 
recently and very wisely placed at Huis t'Dieren, where 
they receive a grant of land in lieu of the passage back to 
India due to them at the expiration of their years of in- 
denture. This Huis t'Dieren Settlement is the first 
earnest attempt to settle, in place of constantly import- 
ing, merely to re-export, Indian immigrants in the colony 
and so to build up a permanent labouring population ; 
and it must have been no little satisfaction to those who 
started this wise scheme to see some small, early earnest 
of its success in the fine samples of rice forwarded from 
there. Two samples novel to most visitors to the Exhi- 
bition, one of pounded, the other of parched rice, 
were among the Huis t'Dieren exhibits. 
One remarkable exception to the prevailing somewhat 
uninteresting excellence of these food products was 
the splendid series of tropical fruits preserved entire 
and unchanged as regards both colour and taste, 
by Mr. Alexander COURTENAY, who writes of them 
as follows : — " The preserved fruits exhibited were 
