280 DR. HOOKER’S MISSION TO INDIA. 
Erythrinas, Adansonia, Bombax, Teak, Banyan, Peepul, Sissoo, Casuarina, 
Terminalias, Melia, Bauhinias. Of introduced species for ornament or 
use, English and Chinese flat Peaches (pruned to the centre to let the 
sun in), Mangos of various sorts, Hugenia Jambos, various Anonas, 
Litchi, Loquat and Longan, Oranges, Sapodilla ; apple, pear, both suc- 
ceeding tolerably; various Caubul and Persian varieties of fruit-trees ; 
figs, grapes, Guava, apricots, and jujube. The grapes look extremely 
well, but require great skill and care in the management. They form 
a long covered walk, with a row of Plantains on the W. side, to di- 
minish the effects of the hot winds, but even with this screen, it is 
inferior to the opposite trellis of grapes. Easterly winds, again, blight 
them and other plants, by favoring the abundant increase of insects, 
and causing the leaf to curl and fall off ; and against this evil there is 
no remedy. With a clear sky the mischief is not great; under a 
cloudy one the prevalence of such winds is fatal to the crop. The 
white ant, too, attacks the stems, and is best destroyed or checked by 
washing the roots with lime-water, yellow arsenic, or tobacco-water. 
The ornamental shrubs are Oleander, Bougainvillea, Tabernemon- 
tana, Ruellia, two sp.; Lantanas, Passifloras, of sixteen species and va- 
rieties ; Verbenas, Ixora, Dracena, Durantas, Quisqualis, Pergularia 
and Convolvuli, Hiptage, Plumbago, eleven kinds of roses, Jatropha, 
various Euphorbias, Crotons and Poincettia, Thujas, Abutilon, and other 
Hibisci, Cassia Fistula, Jasminum, Lagerstremia, Buddlea, Clerodendrons, 
and such like. Of what we should call hardy perennials, annuals, 
and bulbs, I saw Maurandia, Lophospermum, and Thunbergias, fine 
Petunias, Sweet William, Mignonnette, Pelargoniums, Pentas carnea, 
several Aristolochias, Escholizia, Lupines, Clarckia, Schizanthus, Balsams, 
Violets, Clematis, Canne, Strelitzie, and various Marantacee, numerous 
Amaryllidee and Lilies, Erysima, Iberis, Stocks and Waliflowers ; 
Clerodendron, Nyctanthes, and many species of Vitex. These form the 
bulk of the garden; many of them being the same as we have at home, 
others replacing our Fuchsias, Rhododendrons, Azaleas, Andromedas 
and such-like natives of equally damp or temperate climates, to which 
the scorching sun at one season, or the pre rains of the other, 
are inimical. 
Numerous Cerealia, and the varieties of Cotton, Sugar-cane, &c. all 
thrive extremely well; so do many of our English vegetables. The 
cabbages are sadly hurt by the green caterpillars of a white Pontia ; 
