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Proceedings, 



[No. 11, NEW SEEIES. 



Read letter from Dr. Mudge, Honorary Secretary to the Peoples' 

 Park Committee. The Committee regret that keeping in view the 

 interests of the Gardens, it is not in their power to comply with 

 the request of the Committee of the Peoples' Park to supply the 

 Park with trees and shrubs free of cost. The number of these al- 

 ready supplied amounts to about one-fourth of the whole reared 

 in and sent out from the Gardens, entailing for the last 18 months 

 the additional expense of two Gardeners. The Gardens are sup- 

 ported mainly by private subscriptions ; it cannot therefore be ex- 

 pected that the Committee of the Peoples' Park should have an 

 unlimited supply gratis, when the subscribers themselves are re- 

 stricted in their indents. As the Committee however are most 

 desirous to render every possible assistance to such a laudable 

 public undertaking, they instruct the Honorary Secretary to ad- 

 dress the following letter to the Secretary of the Park. 



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Read the following Report by the Superintendent regarding his 

 visit to the Bangalore Gardens. 



As requested in my letter of the 20th of October, I obtained 10 

 days leave to make a visit to the Government Gardens, Bangalore, 

 and procure plants for this Garden. 



Annexed is a list of the plants I brought down. The number 

 of novelties is not so great as I expected, for although the Garden 

 has been a long time established, very little has been done in in- 

 troducing new plants, and we are at present in a better position to 

 help them with plants than they are to help us, except with Aloy- 

 sias, Heliotropes, Fuchsias and plants of that description, and 

 also Roses. 



I made arrangements with Mr. New, the Superintendent, to es- 

 tablish a regular system of Exchange between the two Gardens, 

 as plants from Ootacamund and other High Lands grown in Ban- 

 galore for a year or two, will stand the heat of the Plains much 

 better after being partly acclimatized in the Bangalore Garden. 



I brought the plants down via Tripatore. They were only six 

 days on the road, and I had very few casualties. The expense 



