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friends or foes, aflt'ecting agricultural or horticultural products. It was 

 impossible to cite one example of her work more than another, for she 

 had "observed " and traced the life-history of all such insects, from the 

 smallest to the greatest, from the Currant-bud mite to the goat cater- 

 pillar and the stag beetle, and has informed horticulturists what to 

 cherish as friends of gardening and what to destroy, and how best to 

 do it. 



Sir George King (fig. 117) was appointed Curator of the Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, in 1871, which he thoroughly reorganised and im- 



FiG. 116. — Miss Obmerod, LL.D., V.M.H., &c. {Journal of Horticulture^) 



proved. He also revolutionised the Chinchona plantations of Dar- 

 jeeling, and combated the disease so successfully that the quinine, which 

 used to cost the Government 15s. an ounce, now only costs Is. 4f7. 

 He has published a series of invaluable illustrated 4tos of the 

 "Natural Orders of India," and has written monographs on Figs, 

 Magnolias, Nutmegs, Oaks, Breadfruits, and Custard Apples. Gardeners 

 are also indebted to him for his great work on the Sikkim Orchids, and 

 he is now engaged on a magnum opus on the Flora of the Malay 

 Peninsula. 



