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true salep misri, and along with the former in 1828, living plants of 

 the fruit trees of Kashmir, most of which are now thriving in the garden 

 at Masuri. Among these are the apple, pear, peach, nectarine, plum, 

 cherry, walnut, and vine. 



The whole of the plants of the herbarium have been arranged in two 

 catalogues, one according to the Linnaean or artificial classification, and 

 the other according to the Jussieuan or natural method. To the bota- 

 nical names, the Hindustani ones are added, together with the place of 

 growth, time of flowering, of ripening of their seed, with notices respecting 

 such as are applied to any use. In an appendix, all the plants which 

 are known to be useful in agriculture or medicine, or which afford timber, 

 materials for rope-making, or the tanning principle, or resin, gum, oil, or 

 faecula, are enumerated in separate lists. 



Of many of the new plants, drawings have been made by the paint- 

 ers attached temporarily to the garden. 



As exemplifications of what has already been effected in the natu- 

 ralization of plants, and as guides in the course which it would appear 

 proper to follow, it may be useful to indicate some of the plants of the 

 different countries, which have already been naturalized in the open air, 

 in the Seharanpur garden. 



Among the plants of more southern latitudes, for which the cold of 

 the Seharanpur climate is not too severe, may be enumerated, along 

 with such common fruits as plantain, shaddock, custard, apple, and 

 jack fruit, the cinnamon and sweet laurel, great dillenia, species of 

 anona, uvaria, and pterospermum. 



Of those from more northern climates, such as Kabul and Kashmir, 

 which the parching heats of May and June, and the tepid moisture of 

 the rains have allowed to naturalize in the Seharanpur climate, may be 

 mentioned the almond, peach, nectarine, plum, pomegranate, walnut, 

 quince, saffron, henbane, atropa physalodes, clover, vine, apple, species 

 of sage, of pink, of centaurea, aster, balsam, rhubarb, iris, and pole- 

 monium. 



But the greatest variety of plants which have been acclimated, are 

 those which have been procured from the hills : this does not proceed 

 from their more easy naturalization, but from the greater facility of 

 communication ; for the difference between the climate of the hills, 

 and that of the plains, is much greater than occurs in places differing 

 only in latitude ; for not only the temperature of the atmosphere is 

 different, but also its pressure and density, as well as the radiation of 

 light, and the variations between dryness and moisture. But here the 



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