24.] [Footnote 3: The apple-tree in the Peradenia Gardens seems not only to have become an evergreen but to have changed its character in another particular; for it is found to send out numerous runners under ground, which continually rise into small stems and form a growth of shrub-like plants around the parent tree.] [Footnote 4: An equally successful experiment, to give the vine an artificial winter by baring the roots, is recorded by Mr.BALLARD, of Bombay, in the _Transactions of the Agric.

and Hortic.

Society of India_, under date 24th May,1824.

Calcutta.1850.Vol.i.p.

96.] The tea plant has been raised with complete success in the hills on the estate of the Messrs.