Tobacco, hops, and dried and preserved fruits might largely add to the riches of the colony.

In great part at my own expense, I have introduced and distributed hop plants and various kinds of fruits of great utility, and have, in fact, in the absence of any botanic garden (in which I have vainly endeavoured to get the settlers to take an active interest), made my own garden a kind of nursery for acclimatization and distribution of useful and ornamental plants, and I have also given a small concession for the cultivation of the cocoa-nut on the north-west coast, where, in the absence of vegetables, it would be invaluable.

And, thanks to the Government of the Mauritius, I have been able to introduce various kinds of sugar-cane, for which part of this territory is well adapted.

The growth of coffee has been also attempted on a Government plantation, but without success.

Cotton had already been proved to thrive admirably, and to be excellent in quality, but is not considered likely to pay without cheap labour.