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will report upon the result of this experiment for the information 

 of Government to whom a copy of their proceedings are to be for- 

 warded after publication." 



The Secretary intimates that three casks of the New Orleans 

 Cotton Seed has been forwarded to the Revenue Board for distri- 

 bution in the provinces. The whole of the Cotton seed received 

 from the Manchester Association has been thus transferred to the 

 Revenue Board with the exception of two casks, which still remain 

 available for the Members of the Society should they desire to 

 test- the possibility of propagating this species of Cotton. 



Read letter from Major Worster, Barrack Master Fort St. 

 George, intimating that it is the wish of the Honorable the Gover- 

 nor that the lines of the Native Infantry Regiment at Perambore 

 should be planted with Portia and other trees, and requesting the 

 co-operation and assistance of the Society in carrying out His Ex- 

 cellency's views. 



The Committee observe that the present weather is not suited to 

 the successful planting of slips of the Portia trees, and they have, 

 since the receipt of the foregoing letters learnt, that the lines in 

 question have been supplied from another source with Seedling 

 plants in sufficient numbers — but as it is not unlikely that further 

 requisitions of the same nature may be made upon them by Govern- 

 ment or by private individuals, they determine in anticipation of 

 such requirements to devote a considerable portion of the new 

 ground to the formation of a tree nursery, and further direct that 

 1,000 Portia trees be raised from seeds in the present garden with 

 the least possible delay. 



The Secretary intimates that the Seed Bills due to Messrs. 

 Carter and Co., have been paid and orders have been despatched 

 for the transmission from England of the Annual Supply of Flower 

 and Vegetable Seeds — lists of these will be circulated to all the 

 Members of the Society and distributed gratis to any persons 



anxious to obtain them. 



Resolved that the next meeting take place on Wednesday June 



8th at 6. a. m. 



Walter Elliot, Chairman, 

 Howard B. Montgomery, m. d., Secretary. 

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