76 RUDENESS OF IMPLEMENTS. 



Oats, Rice, &c.* We believe that Mr. Anderson of 

 the Chelsea Garden, and Mr. Sinclair, has paid great 

 attention to the culture of them. The other crops 

 cultivated, generally being raised from indigenous 

 plants, will admit of being rendered more produc- 

 tive by better methods of cultivation, and a decided 

 improvement in the nature of the soil by the addi- 

 tion of the manure it stands so much in need of. 



A great desideratum in the agriculture of this 

 country is an improvement in the implements at 

 present in use amongst the natives, which are of the 

 most simple and antique construction. There will 

 be, no doubt, a very great difficulty in introducing 

 any thing of the kind, especially on the score of ex- 

 pense ; but however averse the Hindoos may be to 

 part with more money than they can help, still they 



* I regret much to say, that these suggestions met with but 

 little attention on the part of the Horticultural Society of London. 

 Although the Horticultural Society of Meerut offered to defray all ex- 

 penccs, they only received from the Secretary in London some seeds, 

 chiefly flowers, not one of which vegetated, and a box which on being 

 opened was found to contain a quantity of sand, in which five va- 

 rieties of potatoes had been packed. It is indeed a pleasure to compare 

 this apparent apathy with the zeal and activity which follow out in the 

 Calcutta Society the most distant hint of useful description, and to 

 know that this zeal in the good cause will bring its own reward. H. C. 



