CONTENTS. 



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CHAPTEE XXL 



Experiments with tea-seeds — Best method of sending them to distant 

 countries — How oaks and chestnuts might be transported — 

 Arrive at Calcutta — Condition of the collections — East India 

 Company's botanic garden — Amherstia and other plants in bloom 

 — Proceed onwards — The Sunderbunds — Arrive at Allahabad — 

 Land journey — Eeach Saharunpore — State of the tea-plants — 

 Saharunpore garden — Mussooree garden — Its trees and other 

 productions — Its value to the country and to Europe . Page 355 



CHAPTEE XXII. 



Ordered to inspect the tea-plantations in India — Deyra Doon planta- 

 tion — Mussooree and Landour — Flora of the mountains — Height 

 and general character — Our mode of travelling — Hill-plants 

 resemble those of China — Guddowli plantation — Chinese manu- 

 facturers located there — I bid them farewell — The country im- 

 proves in fertility — Tea-plantations near Almorah — Zemindaree 

 plantations — Leave Almorah for Bheem Tal — View of the Snowy 

 range — Bheem Tal tea-plantations — General observations on tea 

 culture in India — Suggestions for its improvement — Other plants 

 which ought to be introduced — Nainee Tal — Arrive at Calcutta — 

 The Victoria regia . 368 



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