Am.  Jour.  Pharm.\ 
February,  1898.  J 
In  the  Land  of  Ginger. 
67 
In  the  statistics  of  this  fertile  island  this  article  does  not  figure  in 
pounds,  shillings  and  pence  as  largely  as  do  some  of  its  other  pro- 
's^ 
Sir  Henry  Arthur  Blake,  K.  C.  M.  G.,  Governor  of  Jamaica. 
ducts.  Economically  speaking,  however,  ginger  is  one  of  its  most 
important  articles  of  commerce.  In  my  judgment,  from  25,000  to 
50,000  of  its  people  are  more  or  less  dependent  upon  the  ginger 
