Correspondence regarding a paper by Dr John Forbes Royle on the cultivation of grass
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[p 1] Military letter from Bengal, No.17, dated 23rd February 1847, forwarding papers containing remarks on Dr Royle's paper on the cultivation of the Italian Rye and other grasses. [p 3] Extract from Military letter to Bengal, No.25, dated 8th April 1846, forwarding a copy of a paper by Dr Ro...
Proceedings relating to the report on certain species of nettle grass grown in Assam
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Table of Contents. [pp 1-2] Extract from a General letter from the Government of Bengal to the Court of Directors of the East India Company in the Revenue Department (No.11 of 1852), dated the 22nd July 1852, on the subject of Major Hannay's report on certain species of nettle grass grown in A...
Extracts from inspection report on the local hospital for insanes, by W Russell, Session Judge, 24 Pergunnahs, Bengal, to Judicial Department of Government of India. Plan of hospital (pp 116-17). Section A of report (pp 166-71) discusses the gardening carried out by patients. Successful cultivat...
Dr Benjamin Heyne appointed to superintend the cultivation of potatoes and other culinary vegetables in the Company's garden in Mysore
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[pp 1-2] Extract of Public letter to Fort St George, dated the 23rd April 1794, regarding an expected scarcity of grain in the Northern Circars due to the want of the periodical rains, and the suggestion by Dr Roxburgh on the introduction of such useful trees, shrubs and other plants deemed like...
