CULTURE IN BUNDLECUND AND IN THE DOAB OF INDIA. 189 
The export of Linseed from Bombay is now estimated at an 
annual value of about four lacs of rupees, although five years 
ago it did not exceed one lac. This the Chamber of Commerce 
ascribes to the improvements on the Thulghaut road, and to 
the consequent reduced cost of conveyance in carts instead of 
on bullocks. - 
PROPOSED CULTURE IN BUNDLECUND. 
An article has lately appeared in the ‘ Benares Recorder ’ 
(15th July, 1854), proposing the culture of Flax and of Hemp 
in Bundlecund; observing that “with less capital than what 
English merchants now expend in Russia, India’ can produce 
Flax which will not be inferior in fibre or colour to the Riga 
Flax. In Bundlecund the soil is almost free and unoccupied ; 
and the land rent is also so low, that failure in the cultivation 
of either of these two products—Flax and Hemp—would be 
impossible. There are numerous hill streams with clear water, 
over the whole country, that would admirably serve the purpose 
of steeping.” But the great uncertainty is the climate, which, 
like the parts of the Gangetic valley which have been alluded 
to, is very dry during the season of cultivation. But it is 
certainly worthy of inquiry, by those favorably situated for the 
purpose, whether, by irrigation, or by the aid of the dew which 
undoubtedly falls in the cold weather, this dryness might 
not be sufficiently obviated to allow of the production of good 
Flax. 
CULTURE IN THE NORTHERN DOAB, 
The most northern station from which any Flax was sent 
during the experiments of the Flax Society was Allygurh, in 
27° and 28° of north latitude. Mr. J. Saunders, on the 26th 
July (‘ Proceedings,’ p. 100) wrote that he had sent a sample 
of the Flax which he had grown on the banks of the Kote 
Nuddee. But he described it as prepared with very clumsy 
tools, and cost him about four rupees a maund for merely 
breaking ; as to scutching, it has had none. 
The finest seed was, however, obtained from Saharunpore, 
in 30° of north latitude—a locality with which the Author is 
well acquainted, but where no Flax is produced, and where the 
