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creasing its production and improving the manufacture of its sugar. 

 — A premium of Rs. 500. 



3. For the best practical Essay on the present mode of culti- 

 vating and manufacturing Indian fibre, yielding plants known in 

 commerce, such as jute, sun, &c, with practical suggestions for 

 their improvement. — A premium of Rs. 500. 



4. For the best practical Essay on the present mode of culti- 

 vating and preparing the various tanning products of India, with 

 practical suggestions for their improvement. — A premium of 

 Rs. 500. 



Prize for a Gardener's Fade Mecum. 



To any person who shall produce on or before the 31st Decem- 

 ber 1858, the best practical treatise on gardening as applicable to 

 Lower Bengal, or a Gardener's Vade-Mecum, the sum of Rs. 600. 



The work must afford full, directions for the culture of vegeta- 

 bles, fruits, and flowers, whether indigenous or such as have been 

 introduced into Lower Bengal to the present time, giving practical 

 hints on grafting, budding, pruning, and transplanting, with des- 

 criptions of soils and manures best adapted to certain plants ; a 

 calendar of operations in the kitchen, fruit, and flower garden, for 

 every month throughout the year must be added, as also a copious 

 alphabetical index. 



N. B.— The Rules of competition for Essays the same as pub- 

 lished in 1856. 



A. H. Blechynden, 



Secy. A, and H. Society. 



Metcalfe Hall ; ' 

 Calcutta, 

 April 1858. ' 



The Late Dr. Stocks of the Bombay Army. 



We are indebted, for the following interesting notice of the late 

 Dr, Stocks, to Vol. yi. of Hookeb's Joitenal or Botany. In 



