[10] Is it possible that the continued deception (it was nothing less) was owing to the fact that Government had gardens to sell there? They were advertised for sale a long time at absurd prices.
[11] The rainfall given for the Western Dooars cannot be relied on. Perhaps more than the average fell in 1869, but anyhow, I should think 83 inches registered for August is an error. I know the yearly fall there is not 252 inches.
[11] The rainfall given for the Western Dooars cannot be relied on. Perhaps more than the average fell in 1869, but anyhow, I should think 83 inches registered for August is an error. I know the yearly fall there is not 252 inches.
[12] The oak tree leaves cause a rich deposit of vegetable matter.
[13] The Western Dooars are in many parts covered with this coarse grass, and nowhere is there better soil.
[14] I am now commencing a second garden in the Western Dooars on flat table land, and the site is an exceptionally favourable one.
[15] A garden I have just finished in the Western Dooars is 300 acres in extent, all on flat land without any breaks in the cultivation, and all divided into sections of 5 acres each. Being in one large block it is not divided into gardens at all, only sections.
[16] It is a singular fact that none exists in Northern Cachar, that is, on the northern side of the river.
[17] And also the introduction of a bad class of plants.—E. M.
[18] A single small sample of Tea very carefully made, and with an amount of labour which could never be bestowed on the mass, is little or no criterion. Tea is better made in Kumaon in 1878 than it was in 1842, but Kumaon Tea does not vie in price with Eastern Bengal produce. All the Himalayan Tea is weak, though of a delicate flavour; all Tea grown at high elevation must be so.—E. M.