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surrounded by infected vines remained untouched in the woodT 

 leaves and fruit. 



Mr. Pell said tliat our premium on cattle ii:c., should be en- 

 larged. 



Gen. Tallmadge observed, that some complaint has been made 

 of the smallness of the premiums awarded, by the Institute on 

 cattle and stock — but this has been necessary by reason of the 

 smallness of our funds ; it has demanded great care and ecoiiomy 

 to raise the Institute to its present condition. But the time is 

 near when it will be able to make these premiums all tliat they 

 (v-ught to be. And I will say, now again, that while the agricultu- 

 ral portion of our people (about eighty per cent of the whole 

 people) pay the burthen of the taxes — tliey ought to have agri- 

 cultural schools, whereas certain other Institutions which have 

 no connection with farming have been favored witli the most 

 liberal endowments from the State Treasury. 



Mr. Pell proposed for the next subject, the Tea Plant, 



The Club then adjourned. • 



H. MEIGS, Sec. 



[Revue Horticole, Paris, 1850.] 

 BRITISH TEA PLANTATIONS IN INDIA. 



Dr. Royle, director of the Eotanic Garden of Calcutta, has re- 

 cently made an interesting report on this subject, from which we 

 make the following extracts, with a view to the culture of Tea in 

 our own country, already commenced successfully in South Car- 

 olina, by our valued fellow citizen Junius Smith. 



Report of Dr. ' Royle. 



Some ten years ago the French Government desiring to favor 

 the culture of tea at home, and to give a new impulse to this new 

 subject of French industry, sent to Brazil one of our colleagues, 

 the late Mr. Guillemin, one of the assistants in the museum of 

 Natural History — with instructions to bring home Tea plants — 

 to study there the culture and method of preparing the leaves. 

 He accordingly went there, and he brought back to Paris a con- 



