70 STATEMENT SENT TO ENGLAND. 



SIR, 



I have the honour by direction of the Committee 

 of the Horticultural Society of Meerut, to address 

 you in the confident hope that numerous as your 

 operations may be, and distant as is our relative posi- 

 tion on the face of the globe, you will, as the official 

 organ of an Institution, which may with strict pro- 

 priety be termed the parent of all Horticultural 

 Societies, be enabled to devote occasionally a few 

 moments of your leisure in the year to the con- 

 cerns and wants of one of its offspring, if I may 

 be allowed to use the term. 



In order to enable you to judge, as far as the 

 general outline of the geographical history of 

 vegetable products will admit of your doing so, 

 permit me to mention, as it is scarcely reasonable 

 to suppose that you can be acquainted with the 

 exact nature of our locality, that our station is 

 situated between the 29th and 30th degrees of 

 northern latitude, on an extent of plain bounded 

 east and west by the rivers Ganges and Jumna, 

 called the Doab, and reaching about 130 miles 

 northward to the foot of the Sewallick hills, a 

 portion of the great Himalayan chain, which may in 

 fine weather be distinctly seen from Meerut. 



