1836. 



New application of grafting. 



for breakfast, the produce of our own gardens, of having our 

 deserts enriched with mangos teens, fine oranges, and tigs, 

 and perhaps olives equally the produce of our gardens ; be- 

 sides many other good things which will be successively 

 tried as the principle which I advocate becomes better known, 

 and the practice founded on it generally adopted. Coffee 

 might equally form an article of domestic supply, as it can 

 with a little care, be cultivated and of very fine quality, on 

 the °plains of the Carnatic. The care required is not very 

 great amounting only to sowing the seeds in a cool shady 

 place, and afterwards transplanting the young plants into a 

 good soil, sheltered from the direct influence of the land wind. 

 So situated they thrive well, and form a truly ornamental as 

 well as useful addition to the garden, and in their turn afford 

 shelter to other things requiring such protection. With 

 these suggestions for the practical application of botanical 

 science to our daily wants, I conclude this communication, 

 and hope it maybe the means of -eliciting others of greater 

 value from men gifted with more practical knowledge than 

 falls to the lot of your obedient servant. 



ROBERT WIGHT. 



Palamcottah, 30th October, 1835. 



P. S. — As a cordial friend, and a sincere well-wisher for 

 the prosperity of the Horticultural Society, I shall with your 

 permission avail myself of the present opportunity, to recom- 

 mend for the consideration of the society, the propriety of 

 publishing quarterly, reports of its proceedings in the jour- 

 nal, as well as in the less stable columns of a newspaper. A 

 regular series of such reports might in a few years be ren- 

 dered a valuable record both of useful facts established on the 

 soundest basis, successfully conducted experiment and ob- 

 servation, and of fruitless attempts at improvement, often 

 not less useful, in saving expense and labour, by preventing 

 others going over the same ground, on the supposition that it 

 remained untrodden. Such reports might besides serve as so 

 many guides for other societies in different parts of the coun- 

 try, having similar objects in view, and lastly they would 

 enable its friends far and near to watch over its progress, 

 study both the good and bad points of the system pursued^ 



