. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. VIII. No. 192. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. •277. .S'7'. LUCIA ; ANNUAL KEPOIiTS ON THE BOTANIC STATION, AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, AND ENPERIMENT PLOTS, 1W)S^'J. The total expenditui-e in connexion with the St. Lucia Botanic Station during 1908-9 was £781; 3s. "id., which is .greater than the sum expended last year by £1-50 bs. id., and less than that of 1906-7 by £ IOn. 2i. An amount of £71 Gs. was realized from the sale oi [ilants, flowers, etc., and is the highest on record. It was made u]) of £56 lis. 5rf., f
. Agricultural news. Agriculture -- West Indies; Plant diseases -- West Indies. Vol. VIII. No. 192. THE AGRICULTURAL NEWS. •277. .S'7'. LUCIA ; ANNUAL KEPOIiTS ON THE BOTANIC STATION, AGRICULTURAL SCHOOL, AND ENPERIMENT PLOTS, 1W)S^'J. The total expenditui-e in connexion with the St. Lucia Botanic Station during 1908-9 was £781; 3s. "id., which is .greater than the sum expended last year by £1-50 bs. id., and less than that of 1906-7 by £ IOn. 2i. An amount of £71 Gs. was realized from the sale oi [ilants, flowers, etc., and is the highest on record. It was made u]) of £56 lis. 5rf., for plants, seeds, etc., and £1-1: Id. for flowers. The total number of plants distributed was 43,492, of which 33,135 were raised in, and distributed from, the Agricultural School nurseries. The latter consisted of 23,610 limes, 9,405 cane, and 120 orange plants, besides 450 potato cuttings, 16 cuttings of cacao shade trees, and 1 gallon of .seed corn. In addition to all these, i|uantities of seeds of vegetable and other economic plants, and of ornamental l^lants, as well as cuttings of the last, were sent out from the Botanic Station. Among the seeds received from the Commissioner of Agriculture were some of the Jiquie ilanicoba {Manihot dichotoma), and of the Eemanso 'Mixnieohn (Minihot pinhi/- ensis). These were sown soon after arrival, and a few seedlings of each kind have been obtained. It was decided by the Agricultural Society to distribute free the seeds of Tara rubber that were obtained through the Imperial Department •of Agriculture in 1907, in order to encourage the planting of Heivn hranlieii^is in the island. In addition to this, the price of grafted mango plants has been reduced from 4s. to 2s., with an increased demand as the result. Several of the Castilloa elantica trees at the Botanic •Station were tapped in order to obtain rubber to be prepared and exhibited at the International Rubber lAhibition held at Olympia in September 1908. Reports on
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