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Account of the Botanic Garden at Seharanpur. 



[Feb. 



occasion ; but that the object is not visionary of introducing into one 

 country the useful productions of another which approximates in 

 climate, or possesses a similarity in vegetation, may be inferred not 

 only from the success which has already attended the efforts to intro- 

 duce the useful productions of other countries, but also from the fact 

 that the more valuable indigenous plants of India have already been 

 transferred to and cultivated in countries, which possess many valuable 

 productions peculiar to themselves. 



As instances of the interchange, which has already taken place in 

 the useful productions of the old and new world, I have prepared the 

 following lists, to the second of which I have added a few plants 

 which have become so common as to be thought natives of India, 

 together with some others sent up from the Calcutta Botanic Garden, 

 which have become perfectly naturalized in that of Seharanpur. 



Plants introduced. 



From Asia, chiefly India^ 

 America. 

 The Vine. 

 Rice. 

 Ginger. 

 Coffee. 

 Cinnamon. 

 Pomegranate. 

 Lime. 

 Citron. 

 Orange. 



Sesamum Orientale. 

 Cassia Fistula. 

 Eleusine Indica. 

 Melia Azedirach. 

 Cytisus Cajan. 

 Coriandrum Sativum. 



into 



From America into India. 



The Sugar-cane, Indigo, 

 have been introduced from 

 subject is doubtful, I have 

 parison. 



The Potatoe. 

 Tobacco. 

 Pine Apple. 

 Guava. 

 Capsicum. 

 Carica Papaya. 

 Achras Sapota. 

 Annona Cherimolia. 

 Logwood. 

 Mahogany. 

 Parkinsonia Aculeata. 

 Argemone Mexicana. 

 Cerbera Thevitia. 

 Allamanda Cathartica. 

 Asclepias Curassavica. 

 Martynia Diandra. 

 Canna Glauca. 

 Jatropha Multifida. 



and Tamarind are supposed by many to 



India into the new world ; but as the 



preferred omitting them in the above com- 



