Colonial Exhibition, 1886. 
reported to the Royal Agricultural & Commercial Society 
on the ready sale of our bananas in the exhibition market, 
over £13 worth having been sold in penny-worths in 
one day ; other fruit as sapodilloes, semitoes &c, were 
in excellent order and were evidently an agreeable novelty. 
Souarrie nuts were also readily purchased, and from my 
own observation I am convinced that many, if not all 
the fruits which are or can be produced in British Guiana, 
would find a quick and profitable sale in England, where 
there is so large a demand at certain seasons. Of oranges 
and lemons or limes, for instance, there were imported 
into the United Kingdom in one year (1885) upwards of 
seven million dollars worth, of which only thirty thousand 
dollars worth came from British Possessions ; indeed of 
the £7,587,523 worth of all kinds of fruit imported that 
year, only £302,399 worth came from our colonies. With 
so enormous a demand for fruits, many of which are so 
easily grown here, it seems almost a culpable negle6l of 
opportunities not to direft our attention to the cultivation 
and export of products with which nature has so bounti- 
fully provided us. Pines which will keep without special 
storage for 12 days, besides being shipped from the 
Bahamas in large numbers in a green state (455,965 dozen, 
worth over£5o,ooo having been exported thence in 1885), 
are also largely exported in syrup. Singapore, however, 
has established itself as the best source of preserved 
pines in the London Market. 
The small island of Montserrat, the area of which is 
but 47 square miles, with a population of io,ooo, is the 
head quarters of the lime industry in the West Indies, 
and in 1884 exported £10,300 worth of lime-juice. To 
Tobago belongs the credit of having in quantity and general 
