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Somalia was a very large pale-coloured one. The Somali elephant 

 has, I believe, as a rule, small tusks, though occasionally a good one 

 is procured. I was not in the part of the country they were in. Of 

 smaller animals there is a hare about the size and colour of the 

 Indian one but with longer ears. Porcupine are common, but being 

 nocturnal in their habits you do not see them, and the only one I"saw 

 was inside a lioness. Two kinds of foxes : the most common and 

 largest has a black back (Somali " Daman"), and a smaller kind of a 

 uniform brown colour : and in one place I saw a large colony of dog- 

 faced baboon, about 200 in number: the males have long manes; the 

 young ride on the backs of their mothers, and not, as in the case of 

 the Hanuman monkey, clutching on to the chest. 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING IN NATIVE STATES. 

 By H. St. John Jackson. 



In No. 1, Vol. VI., of the Society's Journal, Mr. G. Carstensen, 

 Superintendent of the Victoria Gardens, Bombay, has given a most 

 interesting account of the progress of landscape gardening at the 

 capitals of certain Native States in the Western Presidency, viz., 

 Baroda, Bhownaggar and Pajkot. It has occurred to me that a 

 description of the gardens in some other Native States, which perhaps 

 Mr. Carstensen has not seen, and with which I am personally 

 acquainted, may prove of interest to the readers of the Journal. 



Before proceeding to describe them, it may not be out of place to make 

 a few observations on the subject of gardening in India. Any one 

 who takes an intelligent interest in this idyllic subject cannot have 

 failed to observe the extraordinary apathy evinced by the rich and 

 intelligent natives of the soil in this most fascinating of pursuits. 

 To the average native the gainda (Marygold), Toolsee {Ocimum sanc- 

 tum), and a few other well known indigenous plants, represent the 

 sum of horticultural science. So long as they can get a few leaves of 

 the Toolsee for their poojaJt, and a few flowers of the gainda for 

 decorative purposes, they are not troubled about anything of more 

 aesthetic or economic value. The Mcmlseri (Mimusops elengi), the 

 Chumpa [Michelia champaea), a few varieties of Jasminuins, and the 



