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(title 17, U. S. Code).
(JAMAICA). (HORTICULTURE). MORRIS, D. Institute of Jamaica. Popular Lectures. Third Series. Some Objects of Productive Industry. Part IV: Native and other Fibre Plants. Kingston, Jamaica: Mortimer C. DeSouza, 1884. 1st ed. 8vo. 48 pp. Bound in contemporary cloth. Very good, with the printed bookplate of D. Morris. $750.00
A compendium of 14 pamphlets (709 pages) chiefly on the horticulture of Jamaica and the West Indies. Morris has authored seven of the pamphlets, which were published between 1880-1897, printed in Georgetown, Demerara, London and Jamaica. The other pamphlets are:
1) Vegetable Resources of the West Indies, by Morris.
2) Fruit as a Factor in Colonial Commerce, by Morris.
3) Root Food Growth in Jamaica, by Cook.
4) Timbers of Jamaica, by Espeut.
5) Some Objects of Productive Industry, by Morris.
6) Cacao: How to Grow and How to Cure It, by Morris.
7) Planting Enterprize in the West Indies, by Morris.
8) Information for Settlers in the West Indies.
9) Improvement of the Sugar Cane, by Harrison.
10) Economic Plants, by Fawcett.
11) Jamaica in 1896.
12) On Droughts, by Morris.
13) Disease of Colocasia (offprint).