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i less known, has few fashionable supporters, but 

 oasts of many powerful enemies among those who 

 atronize its "rival ; and it carries with it the good 

 rishes of most of the true friends of Horticulture. 

 In the same room, in the same week. 

 days of each other, these two bodies produced the 

 vidence they could of their respective claims 

 to public favour, and we sincerely trust that their 

 comparative success will prove a salutary lesson to 

 those whom it concerns. The details of the ex- 

 hibitions are given in another column. We confine 

 ourselves to general facts. 



First came the Improvement Society, 



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- • --■ " - May. Th .- . .' ! ! 



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&!*£&a»^taa!^i of B^nna 

 Jg-g-- ^.en riant for exhibition. 



S»ir5T'" , i 0,1 . t b * other Sowers, including the Con- 

 «* .ii?T^ TerbMlas ' and Chrysanthemums, now so 

 Si l«i?Srta cou^of' °bSion g aM when 



B"S5- NEW SPR^G CATALOGUE OF 

 **L>$*?*. f iP ,a RENDLE'S CATALOGUE, : 



rement Society, poor z 

 . good heart and a soi 



le climate of Bundlecund and of the Doab was too 

 ry for the culture of American Cotton without the 

 id of artificial irrigation. We find that Dr. Irvine, 

 len of Gwalior, was of the same opinion, for he ad- 

 iiuut two waterings ought to be given 

 early in the season, before the rains are heavy, and 

 copious waterings after the rains cease, at 

 intervals. Under this treatment, I venture 

 that there will be no obstacle found to the 

 ilture of American Cotton, of the com- 

 ough most superior species." Cotton Papers, 



with Horticulture, a 



it, and consequently a fine collec- 



luced, doing credit to the 



irdening in Ireland, and proving that 



page lid. 



Captain Bayles having represented 



ut in improving the 

 it a mark* ' 7 ' 



only be found to combine i 

 In the words of an eyewitn 



and valuable. 



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Azaleas produced by the gardener of Mi 

 Burns would not have been disregarded at a great 

 English Show. They exhibited good management 

 " iition for I 



excellent culture." Th« 

 t, aad the attendance o: 





Next 



i the Royal Society, with a fine day 



mitted with free tickets. What those good 

 came to look at, except each other, nobody < 



Aon that 



public opinion cannot be neglected with safety, and 

 that, although idlers may be attracted ' 

 great names, the men who constitute 

 all countries, and who must be most especially 

 looked to as the workers out of Ireland's regeneration, 

 will not support a public body in which self-seeking 

 is the most conspicuous feature. 



the mighty and rise of the lowly, we would not 



Dublin. If continued it mi 

 >sts of all parties ; and we 

 repeat, what we have often urged, that one 

 only, zealous, united, and therefore powerful 

 ultimately serve the public interest in su 

 that in question. Dublin is not Lor 

 incapable of supporting more than 

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8 m I 4wrtDT A ^i LIA STOCKS. 

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UTURDAY, JM 7 5,1849. 





Society 



may, Irishmen should strive to establish: no 

 is not for' us to say. We have objected t< 

 Royal Society in language sufficiently exj 

 for reasons sufficiently plain ; but it wa 

 its intolerable management that the criticism 

 applied, not to the body as a body. That we 

 right in our objections is abundantly evident 

 the changes to which the framers'of its laws ha 

 last been driven. At the exhibition, the singular 

 termination of which the ctfy of Dublin has 



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the plants were all ready for al ulieation, c 

 ■pwxtir,-. ; -Id, they appointed no members oi 

 council judges, a new practice; 3d, they in 

 none as judges but practical men, the very 

 individuals selected by their rivals on the previous 

 Tuesday, a new practice; 4th, thev allowed open 



ng represent 

 planters, far from being disheartened, 



igenous Cotton, s 

 fitable Cotton ; the Agra Go 

 ;d whatever was thought requisite for insuring 

 success of the experiment ; 1. c, pp. 113 and 116. 

 t neither land nor money, nor the zeal of men, 

 • the labour of cattle will suffice, unless the 

 ments are favourable; and the planters were sin- 

 arly unfortunate in the particular seasons 

 •ing which thov made their experiments, though 

 s doubtful whether the climate in general is ever 

 table to the successful culture of American Cotton, 

 hout the aid of such artificial irrigation as may 

 supplied by a canal. Mr. Allen, who succeeded 

 ptain Bayles, reports, on the 19th of August, that 

 )8 acres of land were under Cotton culture on the 

 •t of Government, but "the beginning of the 

 >nn was dt chit dly favourable, though rather late ; 

 ,ween the 7th and 25th of July 10 inches of rain 

 [, and the planters began to complain that there 

 s too much, for the red soils became a mass of 

 id, in which it was impossible to work, and the 

 r lands were flooded. Since the 25th of July 

 have had no rain, and the plants are conse- 

 | n.ning to droop for want ot 

 the season "is c e." Of the 



planters themselves, Mr. Mercer states 



they were 



prove too dry 

 Cotton to adva 

 in this part of In 

 more favourable, 



than the recommencement of this dry west 

 ..... ever can be expect, i 



Short our crops, and deteri 



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'' " ' i country appears to be — a flood. 



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with both candour and good sense, " it will, 

 no doubt, appear strange th tl 



-ays asserted 



; Cotton does not require a great deal of rain. 



Last year th. • Wft August, 



'"It season bids fair to be like the last, as it has 



>en 25 days a" 



■ ihat i 



of Bundlecund, you will a 



commenced early enough 

 to ensure a good crop of Cotton. There is no doubt 

 but that Cotton will grow in this part of Bundlecund, 

 " produce, but we mi"* u " 



embodying the opinions of three 

 m the subject of the uns - :i - L1 ~ 

 i growth of Cotton, j 



In our kst article on the Culture of Cottoi 

 India, we described the result of the expenm 

 made by the American planters in north-wes 

 India during the first year of their being in 

 country. We found that, though they laboured ui 

 some disadvantages, and the season was unusu 

 dry, yet that the American method of cultivation 



for even the Indian Cotton, as planted by the 



eded to the south and east, through Goruckpore 

 I the adjoining districts. Mr. Mercer, who had 

 »n " transferred to Bombay, was to report en route 

 the capabilities of the country in the Sangor and 

 *gh which he would pass.' 

 Mr. Finnie having perambulated a great portion of 

 i for permission to esta- 

 blish a model farm at Agra. This being granted, 

 he arrived tb Uso arranged 



"that the ryots should be encouraged to cultivate 

 Cotton on their own lands, according to V 

 directions, receiving from the planter seed, ploughs, 

 and such ah. ,nt be abso- 



lutely necessary." "But the model farm \ws a 



