CAPABILITIES OF NORTHERN INDIA. J\ 



Should you be acquainted with Dr. Royle's 

 account of the climate enjoyed by the Sahamnporc 

 Botanical Garden, which is but one degree to the 

 north of us, you will have a pretty exact notion of 

 that which we have here ; and when I mention that 

 in the Saharunpore garden, are found not only the 

 Laurus Camphora, and Melaleuca Leucadendron, 

 but many other tropical plants ; beside plants from 

 very high regions of the Himalayan range, and that 

 the Caryophyllus aromaticus* flourishes in the 

 gardens of the Taj at Agra, about 1 30 miles south 

 of Meerut, you will at once see the capabilities of 

 our situation, and the extent of improvements 

 which might, with a little care and industry, be ef- 

 fected in the Agricultural and Horticultural pur- 

 suits, both of the Europeans who are beginning to 

 reside here with a view to permanent settlements, 

 and of the native cultivators of the lands, whose 

 means of subsistence depend exclusively on their 

 crops, and who arc no further advanced in their 

 notions of agriculture than their forefathers were for 

 hundreds of years before them, with the exception 

 of a very small portion residing in the immediate 



* Is not the Allspice or Pimento meant .' II. II. s. 



