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by the voyage of La Peyrouse. The French should, therefore, be extremely 

 careful to preserve this species, as a monument to his memory. — Vdmorin, 

 Oct. 1837. [The tree of this species in the Horticultural Society's Garden, 

 which is there named P. montheragensis, is a diminutive bush, from almost 

 all the leading buds having been annuall)' destroyed for some years past by 

 insects. The buds of P. ponderosa, and of some other species in the garden, 

 have also been much injured, this and the preceding year, by the Hylurgus 

 piniperda ; which, we hope, will be a warning to gentlemen in the country who 

 are planting pinetums, to have the rarer species examined (say once a week, 

 from May to September), and the insects picked off. We recommend the rule 

 of once a week, on a particular day, as more likely to insure execution of orders, 

 than trusting to the operation of a general principle on the mind. Every gar- 

 dener will allow that it is a most desirable thing to pick off insects ; but this 

 is quite a different thing from setting about it in an effective manner. The 

 great use of rules is, to insure the carrying of principles into effect. If man 

 were a perfect being, rules would be altogether unnecessary : it would be quite 

 sufficient for him to be acquainted with principles; but, as we are, there is 

 not one of us that does not require the aid of rules to force us to do justice, 

 even to ourselves. Most gardeners have rules as to watering plants ; and it 

 would be a great improvement in practice, if they would adopt some, also, with 

 respect to hand-picking insects. One or two women should be kept in every 

 garden for light and cleanly operations of this kind ; such as picking off every 

 description of insect, snail, worm, &c. ; removing dead leaves, dead roses, and 

 other flowers, tjing up plants, &c. — Cond.] 



INDIA. 



TJie Madras Agriculliiral and Horticultural Sociefi/, apparently one of the 

 most prosperous institutions of the kind in our Indian territories, held their 

 general annual meeting on June 17. After the usual routine business had 

 been gone through, a report of the garden committee was read. From this it 

 appears that the Society have a garden of upwards of thirtj' acres in extent, 

 which they took possession of in February, 1836 ; and that, since that period, 

 they have been occupied in laying out the beds, making roads, paths, digging 

 wells, and forming tanks above the level of the garden, in order to be able to 

 irrigate every part of it on the surface; constructing a superintendent's house, 

 with a seed-house, and a small hot-house for raising plants, &c. The establish- 

 ment consists of one superintendent, or director, two head gardeners, eight 

 second gardeners, and twelve common gardeners, liesides labourers, boys, 

 women, &c. To give an idea of the mode of proceeding of this society, and 

 the plants they intend to cultivate, &c., we give the following extract, which 

 we do the more readily, because we understand the Society's agents are now 

 on the look out for some British gardeners, who are wilhng to settle them- 

 selves at Bangalore : — " The Society has thougbt it desirable to have a large 

 garden, because the extremely favourable climate of Bangalore plainly indicates 

 that, a garden constructed on strictly English principles must be one of the 

 readiest means of effecting the objects of the Society; and that it may, more- 

 over, aflfbrd a useful focus for the experiments of other societies with similar 

 objects in view. 



" The committee would now call the attention of the meeting to the horti- 

 cultural operations of the Society. Most of the approved English vegetables 

 have been cultivated to a small extent, much smaller than it is intended shall 

 be the case in the ensuing season ; but that part of the garden which, from 

 its position and depth of soil, has been selected as best adapted to the cul- 

 tivation of culinary vegetables, had been formerly, when in the hands of the 

 natives, used for the cultivation of the yi'rachis hj'pogse^a, or pig-nut, the 

 smallest seed of which, if left in the ground, will grow ; and, although the soil 

 was carefully cleared, it was continually appearing above ground, and assisted 

 by that most troublesome of all weeds, the 6'yperus rotimdus, also cultivated 

 there for sandal, impoverisiiing the soil, and preventing the growth of exotic 



