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Roberts asks if he could be furnished with a small plant of vanilla for a cousin in Jamaica who is desirous of cultivating it. Roberts is his cousin's agent here and finding ginger, his principle article, less remunerative of recent years, his cousin has turned his attention to other crops. Roberts has suggested vanilla as bearing a high price and being in limited cultivation. He has extracted the particulars of its cultivation from THE GARDENERS DICTIONARY by Miller, who seemed to view it as very suited to the West Indies. Roberts has received a letter asking him to procure a plant and, as he is anxious to procure the true variety, he ventures to request this favour of Hooker instead of going to a nurseryman. He shall happily pay any expenses. His cousin resides at Goshin [Goshen] in the parish of St Elizabeth and if he can procure any plants of interest for RBG Kew, Roberts is sure he would be happy to do so. Page 1 of 2.