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PEEFACE. 



The first part of this work published in 1882, and the second in the following 

 year, contain nearly all the field crops and the more important of those which are 

 usually found in native gardens. The plants referred to in this, the third and 

 concluding part, are, with few exceptions, garden crops, grown in comparatively small 

 patches, and mostly for home consumption. 



My acknowledgments are due to Mr. T. W. Holderness, C.S., lately Director of Land 

 Eecords and Agriculture, who kindly allowed me to consult the agricultural records in 

 the Statistical Office at Cawnpore, and enabled me also to obtain from some of the 

 leading zamindars of these Provinces many interesting facts regarding some of the 

 crops mentioned in this part. Mir Ali Hussain, lately Overseer of the Cawnpore Ex- 

 perimental Farm, has contributed much local information concerning the minor crops. 



Since the publication of the second part of this work, five volumes of Dr. Watt's 

 most useful " Dictionary of the Economic Products of India " have appeared ; also 

 Professor Church's " Food Grains of India." Both these publications have been freely 

 consulted and made use of in the preparation of this volume. 



J. F. DUTHIE. 



