30 
in diameter, the tallest is 180 feet: they are White Gum trees. 
Hops, &c., in the Southern Hemisphere tmii in the same direction 
as they do in Europe.” 
“ At Port Nicholson (Cook’s Strait), French Beans and Scarlet 
Runners are not good until the second year. Broad, or W indsor. 
Beans produce the best crop in the second year. Scarlet Kale is 
never good, for want of frost to sweeten it: it is bitter.” 
An excellent correspondent, Assistant-Surgeon J. E. Stocks, 
Esq., of Sciude, writes as follows, from that country, so httle 
known in a botanical point of view.— 
“ Perhaps a brief statement of what I have seen of the Scinde 
vegetation may be acceptable, though almost valueless from its 
incompleteness. However, I trust one day to do better, and 
this may illustrate the few plants I have now sent. 
“ The Beloochistan Hills (Brahooie range), which form the W. 
boundary of Scinde and run parallel with the river, sending 
spm’s towards it, are confined to the right bank; except at two 
places, viz., Sukkur and Hyderabad, where the river passes 
through a Limestone range, which does not, however, extend far 
from the river on its left bank. The hills and their spurs vary 
in their distance from the river, (reaching down to it sometimes, 
as at Jerruk and Sehwan,) and the tract of land between them 
and the river is well cultivated, more especially the oval island 
formed by the divergence and re-entrance of the Arun branch 
(of which Lake Munchur is a mere expansion). On the left bank, 
the land is less and less cultivated as you recede from the river, 
till it shades off into the great desert to the E., and the little 
desert, to the S.E. 
“ During the inundation, numerous canals carry fertility over 
a large extent of country; and under the admirable management 
of Major Scott, will, in a few years, make the revenue swell out 
wonderfully. But it requires two years yet, at an expense of 
20,000/. a year, to bring the canals back to the state in which 
they were when we conquered the country. Eor the Scindians 
neglected tillage, and allowed the canals to choke up, for two 
successive years, not knowing what would happen, whether the 
Ameers would be restored, or whether we should hold the 
country; and the staple commodity of Scinde, viz., sand, being a 
bad material for canal-works, they get blocked up if neglected a 
single year. The IVlarrum grasses would be of great use in 
