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Meteorological Tables. 



Besults of a Bain-Gauge kept at Carlisle. Communicated by 

 Mr Joseph Atkinson. 



On the Cultivation of Roses, and the Manufacture of liose- 

 TFater and Attar or Otto, at Ghazeepore.* 



I have now the pleasure of sending you the information you 

 require, on the manufacture and trade of rose-water in this 

 district. Ghazeepore seems to have been long famed for its 

 attar and rose-water, and having got the name, it has done 

 its best to preserve it. The cultivation of the. rose-plant is 

 sufftcient to supply the demand, and as the average remune- 

 ration is not more than enough to compensate for the trouble 

 of its culture, no competition fi'om the adjoining districts has 

 been made. 



Around the station of Ghazeepore there are about 300 bee- 

 gahs, or about 150 acres, of ground laid out in small detached 

 fields, as rose-gardens, most carefully protected on all sides 



* Wc are indebted to Dr Jackson, Civil Surgeon at Ghazeepore, for the 

 above very interesting note on the celebrated rose trade of that district. The 

 information was procured for a work now in progress on '" Indian Materia 

 Medica ;" meanwhile, we have much pleasure in giving publicity in this 

 Journal to the curious- facts Dr Jackson has collected. — Eds. J^uptml of tlte 

 Aeiatic Socicfi/ of Bengal, May 1839. 



