144 The Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India. 



The introductory discourse of the President is followed by 

 a number of interesting memoirs. 



Dr Tytler, established at Allahabad, has studied the different 

 diseases that attack barley and rice ; among others, one which 

 changes the latter salubrious grain into a true poison. It is a 

 blight, analogous to that of wheat, produced, as it appears, by a 

 superabundance of water in the rivers. 



The society had communicated to its members a series of ques- 

 tions concerning the climate, the statistics, and agriculture of 

 the different provinces. Dr Tytler sent detailed answers con- 

 cerning the district of Allahabad ; Mr Stirling concerning those 

 in the vicinity of Nurmuda ; jNIr C. H. Blake concerning that 

 of Poornea, where he has kept a regular journal of all the ope- 

 rations of agriculture during a year. Detailed descriptions of 

 the agriculture of the twenty-four Purgunnas, of Silhut, and the 

 neighbouring districts, have been communicated by Baboo- Rad- 

 ha-Kanta-Deva. General Hardwick communicated a note con- 

 cerning a species of very nutritive wheat, which is cultivated in 

 the districts annually inundated on the borders of the Jumna. 

 Details concerning certain varieties of rice, a dwarf pea, origi- 

 nally of Patua, and ropes fabricated with fibres of different 

 palms, are communicated by the President. Mr H. Piddington 

 has a short memoir on the hemp of Manilla, furnished by the 

 Mtisa textilis ; Mr G. Ballard one concerning the culture of 

 the grape-vine at Bombay ; on the cultivation of the sugar-cane 

 in different districts ; and on an improved plough. Dr Wallich 

 has communicated notices concerning the colony of Prince Ed- 

 ward's Isle, of the price of opium in that establishment, as well 

 as concerning the employment of lime as a manure, and on the 

 arborescent cabbage sent to the botanic garden of Calcutta by 

 Professor de Candolle of Geneva. D. Scott, Esq. has given a 

 summary of observations made during 22 years, as to the suc- 

 cession of the seasons at Bengal. The same gentleman has di- 

 rected the attention of the society to the obtaining grains from 

 Europe, by taking care to preserve them from humidity and the 

 rapid changes of temperature, by putting them into glass phials 

 with parched bran or burnt charcoal. 



We observe in this volume the translation of an Indian book 

 on horticulture, which, although it may contain some useful di- 



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