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or distilling ; Mangel-wurzel, and turnips for feeding cattle, 

 and all other vegetables. 



Coffee is cultivated on the slopes of the valleys, and, to a 

 great extent, about Coonoor and Kotergherry, and even more 

 near to Neddiwuttum to the West — from one plantation, in 

 that quarter, 600 acres produced 250 tons of Coffee, which, in 

 1856, sold in the London market for 70s. the cwt. and some 

 for 78s. 



Baron Hiigel found, in considerable abundance, near Coo- 

 noor, the Camellia Japonica, which is said to affect the same 

 soil, climate, and exposure, as some of the more valuable 

 descriptions of the tea-plant, from which, and other circum- 

 stances, he inferred, that the latter might be cultivated 

 with advantage. My friend the late Dr. Christie, had come 

 to the same conclusion, and commissioned some plants from 

 China, some of which came into my possession after his 

 death, and have been distributed to various parts of the hills 

 for trial. It is now cultivated at Coonoor, and even near Oota- 

 camund, but suflBicient attention has not been bestowed upon 

 it at any place. 



Lucerne, and Fiorin grass, and Italian rye and other grasses 

 imported by Mr. Mclvor, thrive remarkably well. 



Tobacco, of a very superior description (said to have been 

 sown by a Todar) was discovered by two gentlemen of my 

 acquaintance (Messrs. Ashton and Stephenson) on a small hill 

 not far from Ootacamund. 



If a proper selection of ground were made at Dimhutty, 

 Orange Valley or Billycull, and walls or espaliers erected, 

 fruit of any kind, and in almost any quantity might be 

 raised. As now at Jackatalla by Dr. Macbeth, and at Coonoor 

 by General Kennett, Mr. Davison and others. 



The cultivation of medicinal plants, such as rhubarb, Co- 



