PEEFACE 



MY preface must be an apology. When I first 

 wrote these gardening notes, I had no intention 

 of rushing where angels fear to tread into 

 print! They were written with the object of 

 amusing an invalid relative at the Antipodes, in 

 the hope that she would be interested in reading 

 of some of our experiences in this (to her) unknown 

 land. But they never reached her, as she died 

 before I could finish them. They have, however, 

 been read by friends, who have encouraged me to 

 offer them to the public ; and although they may 

 not be so novel to many as they would have been 

 to her, I hope my little descriptions of daily doings 

 in India may find an indulgent reader or two, both 

 there and elsewhere. 



E. M. EGGAE. 



ALIPORE, CALCUTTA, 

 June 1904. 



