INTRODUCTION. 



IN the course of the year 1838 it occurred 



55 to the Right Honorable the Governor General 



JJ to address the home authorities on the subject 



g of the advantage likely to accrue to the British 



Indian Empire by undertaking, at the expence 



of the state, experiments on an extensive scale 



for naturalizing in India useful and desirable 



plants indigenous to other countries. 



The Honorable the Court of Directors of 

 the East India Company in its reply, under 

 date the 13th of February 1839, expressed its 

 full concurrence in the suggestion, and intima- 

 ted that a resolution had been passed, gradually 

 to furnish means for carrying the recommenda- 

 JSsion into effect. 



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