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5. What fruits are now imported into the colony, either fresh or 
preserved ? Please state kind, quantity, and value, and the market from 
whence derived. 
6. Please add any special points of interest connected with the fruits 
of the colony herein reported upon, which are desirable to place on 
record. 
Report of the Agricultural Committee. The following 
matters were considered : — 
1st. Letter from Mr. Hawtayne referring to tobacco and silk culture 
as possible industries for this colony. 
It was agreed that the Society be recommended to approach the 
Government and ask that 25 acres of the Botanical Gardens be set 
apart and placed under the control of this Committee for the acclimati- 
sation of various economical plants with the view of establishing some 
minor industries. 
2nd. Letters of enquiry from Engineers and Inventors in the United 
States for information in regard to the $100,000 prize offered some 
years ago by the Government for mechanical aids for cane cultivation. 
Recommended that the parties enquiring be informed that the vote 
of the Combined Court sanctioning the above named amount as a prize 
had lapsed. 
3rd. Coffee and cocoa reports forwarded by Mr. Hawtayne on the 
samples exhibited at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition. 
Recommended that the thanks of the Society be tendered to Mr. 
Hawtayne for obtaining and forwarding the reports. 
4th. Reports and remarks forwarded by Mr. Hawtayne on pickles, 
preserves, &c, shipment of fruit, telegraph posts of colony wood &c. 
Recommended that the information contained in these reports be 
afforded intending shippers on their applying for it. 
5th. Letter from the Re6lor of St. Michael's Parish asking for the 
moral support of the Society in his efforts to establish the cultivation 
of arrowroot at Hopetown. 
Recommended that the moral support of the Society be accorded to the 
reverend gentleman, but, in what manner, the Committee is unable to say. 
The Committee accepts the two thousand dollars placed at its dis- 
posal for agricultural purposes, but with regard to that portion of it. 
one thousand dollars for cultivating fibres at the Botanical Gardens, the 
Committee beg to lay over from the Government Botanist, letter dated 
