with round berries mil rapidly into kind furnishes (under 
proper culture) a most pleasant sub acid fruit, the size of an 
egg-plum, I have made the fine oval fruited kind by manure, 
irrigation, and heavy lopping off of top branches combined. All 
you require for the Worm aud tree is a long, not, wet summer 
like ours. But I do not doubt you will find some equally 
good Forage Tree. Acacia Oaffra will to my idea prove an 
excellent substitute for our Acacia Arabica, from which such 
fine crops of Tussur silk are annually collected in the Lower 
Provinces, this district being rather too moist for the tree, as 
I notice it frequently, becomes reduced in character around 
Jubbulpoor. 
“ I have a bag of our local Bambusa for you ; it seeded 
largely this season. I find the grains very subject to attack 
by a tiny grub. This rice like grain was collected and sold in 
the markets at a fancy price, for the native considers it a de- 
licacy ! Oh, for the old pattern post ! I must now wait till 
when I know not ! 
“ This line towering, tapering, densely-clumped twiggy 
bamboo, I found of great utility in moro ways than one. In 
three or four years in this climate, and still sooner in humid 
Assam, it forms a gigantic fence, even elephant proof, while 
the twigs no less than the mature Bamboos are in the most 
constant demand for peasticks, border enclosures, creeper 
supports, Ac., Ac. .Nothing however will grow in or near the 
shade of any Bambusa, which I found an objection on the 
score of economy in my small tea plantation, but it has the 
powerful advantage of warding off hurricanes and high winds 
from valuable estates, being a dense screen of elastic strength. 
“ Gloriosa Superba ” seems to be one of the very few plants 
capable of enduring its cold shade. — Yours truly, 
“ W. IT. Lowtheg ” 
