UTAKAMAND GARDEN. 365 



Rs. 100 towards the expenses of this, on the condition that the 

 committee raise an equal sum from among the residents. 



25. Kunur Nursery. — Before leaving the Nilgiri hills, I 

 visited the Kunur subsidiary garden in company with Mr M'lvor. 

 It is well sheltered and well watered, situated 1J mile from 

 Kuniir. Nine gardeners are employed, including the maistry, at 

 the cost sanctioned of Es. 50 per mensem. The orange appears 

 to grow here in as great perfection as at Malta or Canton, and 

 when the garden is in full operation, will probably do away with 

 the necessity of keeping up the Kulhutty nursery, which might 

 be then sold with advantage. There would be three gardens, 

 forming a graduated series in one line of road — alpine, subal- 

 pine, and tropical ; viz., Utakamand, Kuniir, and Burliar. The 

 latter, indeed, is the private property of E. B. Thomas, Esq., 

 collector of Coimbatore ; but from his zeal in arboriculture, and 

 great liberality to all applicants, its usefulness for disseminating 

 tropical products is almost as great as if it were public property. 

 In the note is' given a list of the fruit trees, aromatic shrubs, &c, 

 now cultivated in this rich but confined nook, in which the choco- 

 late tree, nutmeg, allspice, &c, have succeeded admirably, and 

 from which it is the hope of Mr Thomas that they may be exten- 

 sively spread over congenial climates, such as the Wainad and 

 other parts of Malabar.* 



26. Before closing, I venture to suggest that Mr M'lvor 

 having now served the Government for nearly ten years without 

 any increase of salary sought or proposed, might reasonably be 

 allowed an increase, so as to raise his allowance to Rs. 200 per 

 mensem, on the express condition that he devotes his whole 

 time unreservedly to Government service. In addition to the 

 garden superintendence, he might be required to undertake the 

 management of certain tree plantations in the immediate 

 vicinity of Utakamand, to which I shall allude in a separate 

 communication. 



27. In conclusion, it occurs to me that S. N. Ward, Esq., 

 Civil and Session Judge of Coimbatore, having occasion to visit 



* Jak trees, nutmeg trees, clove, allspice, cinnamon, chocolate, vanilla, 

 peach, orange, lime, pumplemoOB, Granadilla, mangosteen, rose-apple, 

 loquat, pine-apple. 



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