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CULTURE IN THE MADRAS PRESIDENCY. 
Though not within the limits of the Bengal Presidency, we 
may here most appropriately mention that good Flax has been 
produced still further south, where elevation produces lowness 
of temperature accompanied with moisture of the atmosphere, 
as on the Shevaroy Hills and on the Neilgherries. Dr. 
Cleghorn, Secretary of the Agri-Horticultural Society of 
Madras, is well qualified to give the best advice on localities 
where experiments may most fitly be tried; and Professor 
Mayer is there, to give the benefit of his chemical investigation 
of the Flax plant and soil. Mr. M‘Ivor, in charge of the 
Public Garden at Ootacamund, is well situated for making 
experiments on the growth of Flax in the cool and moist 
climate of the Neilgherries, if the culture should in other 
respects appear desirable. 
Linseed has long been cultivated in the Madras Presidency, 
though not to any great extent. Dr. Ainslie mentions the 
seed under the name of Aliverei, and states that in the southern 
parts of the Peninsula, the Mootchie men and oil painters 
make use of Linseed oil. But we now find Linseed among 
the Exports: in the year 1850-51, there were exported 801 cwt. 
of Linseed from Fort St. George, nearly all to the United 
Kingdom. 
CULTURE IN BOMBAY PRESIDENCY. 
In the Bombay Presidency, Linseed is also cultivated, as in 
all other parts of India, and has of late years been exported in 
considerable quantities. We observe that in the year 1850-51, 
59,076 cwt., and in 1852-58, 162,015 cwt.= Rs. 486,046 in 
value, were imported into Bombay from the Concan; and 
that there were exported to the United Kingdom, in 1850-51, 
50,102 cwt., valued at Rs. 170,112, and in 1852-53, 114,309 ewt. 
= Rs. 342,926 in value. We do not observe that any attempts 
have been made to grow Flax. It is probable that the 
low country along the coast may be too hot, and the country 
above the ghauts too dry; but of this those who are located 
in these parts can most correctly judge, if it should be thought 
desirable to make the attempt. Col. Sykes describes Linseed 
as generally cultivated in the Dukhun. 
