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Scientific intelligence. 
[no. 4, NEW SERIES, 
in commencing a Garden on these Mountains with a scanty income 
of 100 rupees per mensem, and the experience to be gained before 
exotics from various lands could be successfully introduced. I 
will, however, observe that the present condition of the Garden 
is very creditable to Mr. Mclvor, who has labored by himself 
from the beginning without the aid of pr(\fessional advice, and al- 
though much remains to be done, yet on making inquiry, I find 
it generally admitted by visitors that great progress has been made 
during the past year. ' e 
In the upper part, the borders and beds have befn well planned 
and arranged, and have a neat and trim appej-^rance. The view 
from the higher terraces is romantic, and from them only can the 
general plan be well seen and understood. On the grassy banks 
along the sides of the main walk, are clumps of showy flowers, 
and scattered through the ground are fine standard Acacice, Eu- 
calipti, Coniferce^ Psoralece, SwainsonicB, Pultenoe, Hume^, Haliece, 
8fc. Excepting a few specimens of Malionia Laschenaidta, Rhodo- 
dendron Arhoreum, Sapota Elengoides, Myrtns tomentosa, Ilex Wigh- 
tiana and Viburnum acuminatum ; all the rest of the trees in the 
Garden seem to be introduced. 
The lower part of the Garden is not in good order. It was ori- 
ginally a swamp, and sufi'ers from frost in clear winter nights ; the 
cold air formed on the slopes of the Mountains, rolls down into the 
valley and envelopes the herbage, bliglixing many tender plants^ 
It is now protected from the high winds by rows of Australian 
trees, and there is a prospect of Mr. Mclvor devoting his energies 
to it as soon as the Conservatory is finished. As Dahlias and 
many other plants which are not hurt on the upper slopes are kill- 
ed by the frosts below, and as this evil cannot be entirely averted, 
it is proposed to make this part a grassy lawn for exhibitions of 
Native projluce, with an avenue of 50 feet in breadth leading from 
the gate to the Conservatory. 
General Results. — I have great pleasure in observing that the 
. introduction of the seeds obtained through Government from Saha- 
lunpore, Darje^ling, China, Australia and the Cape has been most 
