The British West Indies, so popular with the American tourist
and so neglected by the British globe-trotter, are contemplating something original in their exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley in 1924. According to the Sunday Times, it is to take the form of a West Indian garden, where one may see growing the plants which supply the samples of sugar, coffee, tobacco, allspice, bread-fruit, ginger, coconut that will be shown in the Pavilion. The plants are to be acclimatized by degrees and will spend the winter of 1923 in greenhouses in England before being planted out-of-doors. It will require considerable ingenuity on the part of the pro- moters, failing the merciful dispensation of Providence in providing a summer like that of 1921, to produce in the open air the illusion of a West Indian garden, especially for those whose recollection of the gardens of Jamaica and Trinidad is one of flaming Hibiscus and Bougainvillea with rainbow-hued humming-birds flitting to and fro. The enterprise of the West Indian promoters is none the less to be commended, and the difficulties, no doubt, will be partially overcome.
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