192 



Beport of the Co^nmittce of the 



[Xo. 34, 



Rs. A. P. 



♦Includes keep of To meet pay of Siipcrinteiidont, and all servants, 183 8 0 



and"'le-?a™- f Average ordinary expenses, 40 0 0 



chiaen- oi the * 1 Do. extra do 50 0 0 



dran- ^vell, eost ^ 



ol llower and \va- ^ . , 



terpots. Total.. 273 8 0 



Leaves, in favor of tlie Society, a monthly average of Rupees 120. All 

 seed bills for the current year have been paid, so that the present state 

 of the Society stands thus on 1st January: 



Cash in hand, Rups. 745 4 0 



Due arrears of Subscription, 1,266 0 0 



Due seed and other bills, ....... ,, 117 11 0 



Total Rupees.. 2 , 129 2 0 



At a Meeting of the Members of the Society on the 16th June last, it was 

 resolved to give up, for the future, the cultivation of vegetables in the gar- 

 den ; as the object of having done so for so many years, had been, so far as 

 the Society was concerned, fully accomplished ; in that it had taught the 

 Natives our mode of culture, and the superiority of our vegetables, if not 

 to then- taste as esculents, certainly as a marketable commodity amongst 

 the European and Indo-British community. As an encouragement to 

 cultivators of European vegetables, the Society, however, still continue to 

 award pecuniary prizes to market gardeners -exhibiting the best produce 

 at their annual meeting. One of the original intentions of the Society was 

 the introduction into their garden, and thence the gradual distribution, 

 of trees and shrubs, whether valuable as fruit bearing, timber, or for 

 other qualities, or simply ornamental ; and in thus giving up further cul- 

 tivation for culinary purposes (which indeed required very great labor, 

 care, and attention) the Society is enabled to turn the whole of its re- 

 sources into the former channel, and thereby, it is hoped, in a short time, 

 not only to stock its Garden with a larger and more varied assortment 

 of fruit and other trees and shrubs, but to establish abetter system of nur- 

 sery gardening in all its branches, including also the collection of the 

 seeds of all tropical plants, for distribution in India, or for transmission to 

 Europe. The Secretary would beg here to observe, that it is very desira- 

 ble this latter arrangement should be more generally known, and that Sub- 

 scribers can at all times procure packets of Indian seeds carefully pack- 

 ed and labelled for transmission to Europe, or elsewhere — on application 

 being made to him — with directions for the despatch ; a charge only being 

 made for packing (if in tin), or expense of carriage if paid here. 



The Secretary has great pleasure in reporting that the ne^v conserva- 

 tory has proved of infinite service, during both the hot season and the 

 rains; in the former, by means of grass tatties, the temperature was 

 greatly reduced, and by keeping the whole of the inside constantly 

 sprinkled and syringed ^yith water, the injurious effects of oui* scorching 



