CONSIGNMENTS ASKED FOR. 



would not entirely close their eyes to the chances, 

 and if used, the certainty, of saving both labour 

 and time by adopting better implements for their 

 staple occupation. 



To enable us to effect this, we shall esteem it an 

 especial favour, if you could make a small selection of 

 models of Agricultural, and at the same time Horti- 

 cultural implements for transmission to us. We 

 would, with your permission, suggest that they 

 should be such only as are likely to suit the soil, 

 which though in some few places clayey and hard, 

 is for the most part of a light sandy nature. You 

 will also be pleased to bear in mind, that bullocks of 

 rather a small breed are in general use here. We 

 would further suggest your only selecting such im- 

 plements as are likely to cost the least in making. 

 Models in wood, capable of being taken to pieces, 

 would be preferable to metal ones. 



With regard to ultra-Indian plants of a culinary 

 description, which may be said to be strictly within 

 the sphere of a Horticultural Society, the potatoc 

 stands foremost as regards not only its utility, but 

 also the extent to which its cultivation has been 

 brought to in India. But as far as our observa- 

 tion goes, there is but one variety produced in 



