& VARIETIES OF POTATOE REQUIRED. 



the country. Whether it has been found on trial 

 that this is the only variety that will answer, 

 or whether the original importers, finding that it 

 speedily spread, took no trouble respecting the in- 

 troduction of other varieties, we cannot say ; but it 

 is very certain that no other variety is found at pre- 

 sent. We are specially anxious to procure for tri- 

 al a few of the numerous varieties so celebrated in 

 England and Ireland, and shall thank you, as no 

 doubt there are means by which they can be effec- 

 tually protected from injury during the voyage, to 

 select some of the best kinds for us, and despatch 

 them so as to be in India before the season for 

 planting them the next year, which commences 

 here about the latter end of September, or begin- 

 ning of October. 



We ought previously to have mentioned, that 

 great exertions are making to improve the Cotton, 

 Tobacco, and Sugar of India; any better sorts of 

 seeds of these plants, or any information respecting 

 their cultivation, will be most acceptable to us. The 

 desire of improving Hemp, which is here used only 

 as furnishing an intoxicating drug, and of Flax cul- 

 tivated for the expressed oil of the seed, by intro- 

 ducing better kinds of seeds, induce us to place 



