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“... tarantula spider. A clump
of bamboos over 80 feet high cannot fail to
excite remark, and screw-pines (Pandanus), groo-
groo palms (Acrocomia selerocarpa), sand-box trees
(Hura crepitans), cannon-ball trees and banyans,
to say nothing of the more familiar hibiscus,
poinsettias, dracaenas, and crotons of every colour
will astonish those who are new to the tropics.
The gardens contain a well-stocked library and
a fine herbarium, to which visitors interested in
botany are welcomed if they are furnished with...”
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“...ST. VINCENT
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It also contains a large collection of plants of
economic interest, besides those of an ornamental
nature. It is one of the institutions under the
control of the Imperial Department of Agriculture
for the West Indies, and it serves as an efficient
centre for the propagation and distribution of
important industrial and other plants to local
planters. To visitors from temperate climes,
trees and plants, such as arrowroot, banana,
cannon-ball, cinnamon, cocoa, clove, black pepper,
bread-fruit, india-rubber, mango, mahogany, nut-
meg, pine-apple, teak, traveller’s palm, vanilla, and
various palms and ferns, can scarcely fail to be
of interest. The Government Central Sea Island The Cotton
Cotton Ginnery is situated within five minutes’Glnnery'
walk of the landing-stage, and should certainly
be visited. It is one of the best of its kind in
the West Indies, being capable of ginning and
baling upwards of 4000 lbs. of cotton lint per
working day of nine...”
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