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 NATURAL HISTORY. 39 Horticultural Society published in 1839, the MasJtndbad, a treatise on the cultivation of flax, with four wood cuts to illus- trate the mode of cleaning it, as also a hand sheet on the cul- tivation of CiELERY. 169. AGRICULTURE AND FARMING, Manual of, Krishi Darpa% 1853, pp. 48. Sanders, Cones & Co. By Munshi Kyafat Alia. Taken from Fenwick^s Urdu work on gardening, published by Captain Rowlatt, at his own expense, for the use of the people of Asam : treats of soils : manure : -seeds: mode of cultivating wheat and sugar-cane, peas, heinp, tobacco, lac, potatoes, pepper, melons, turmeric, &c. 170. AGRI-HORTICULTURAL MISCELLANY, Krishi Sangraha, edited by Peary Chand Mittra, 5 Nbs., pp. 1 83, 8vo. Roz. & Co. 1854-55, 2 as. per no. Written in colloquial Bengali, in order to give information on popular subjects. Pub- lished by the A gri- Horticultural Society. The work meets with a good sale. The following are the subjects in it— on cultivating arrow -root: cultivating potatoes: trimming peach trees: a method of quickly propagating cauliflowers : guinea grass : tobacco : artichokes : asparagus : plain rules for cultivating some of the most approved European and native vegetables : tapioca : directions for cultivating teak ; best mode of propagat- ing plants : cultivating melons : on cultivating and preparing senna : do. potatoes, do. grape vine, do. exotic vegetables and •row, do. safflower : do. peaches : do. strawberries at Cawnpur : do, pot herbs : do. celery: do. flax; list of Indian plants and their native and scientific names : en ike date tree : .fibres of Asam, do. rhea fibre: fibrous substances substitutes for hemp and flux. 171-2. (E. T) AGRr-HORTICULTURALTRANS- ACTIGXS, Khetra Bhaganbibamu, 2 vols., 1831 and 1836, pp. 730, by J. Marsh man. The Agri- Horticultural Society spent 2,000 lis. on this translation of some volumes of their transactions ; the papers were injudiciously selected, as a number of papers were translated not likely at all to interest nntives — amonpr the subjects ofinterest in these volumes, are the following : agriculture in the 24-Pergunnahs, Asam, Behar, and Kashmir ; on fruit trees : sugar-cane : agriculture of Purnea : cotton, indigo, teak, arrow-root, silk, cofiee, tobaeco, hemp, potatoes, peaches, rice, artichokes,— correspondence and addresses on various agricultural and horticultural subjects. These volumes may be obtained gratis on application to the Secretary of the Agn- Horticultural Society. — - dowers, on certain varieties of do. vegetable mar-