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pu donner. C'est dans cette idee que je vous ai envoye des cereales et 

 des legumes communs de ce pays. D'ailleurs nos legumes du continent 

 sont preferables a ceux de 1'Angleterre, et leurs graines sont plus mures. 

 Une autre fois je pourrai probablement vous donner des especes alpines 

 et c6reales des hautes regions." 



With regard to the time and state of the arrival A , rr ^ al , of 



the Seeds 



of the seeds in India, Dr. Wallich, expressing his 

 grateful thanks to the Court of Directors, wrote on 

 the 24th August 1839, that the noble packet of 

 seeds dispatched on the llth of May had arrived 

 there on the 12th July. The seeds having been 

 immediately sown, several had already vegetated ; 

 of these, the highly interesting Sea Island Cotton 

 germinated in four days. Of the moderate supply 

 of the latter, he had furnished small quantities to a 

 number of practical men, as Capt. Jenkins and 

 Dr. Wight. He particularly requests that assort- 

 ments of seeds may be continued to be sent, especi- 

 ally those from South America and the West In- 

 dies, as they succeed, in general, remarkably well, 

 and that on his part he would do his utmost to 

 reciprocate, by endeavouring to obtain the sort of 

 temperate zone seeds that are so much desired in 

 England. 



Dr. Falconer, to whom the first supplies had 



