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Updated: May 2, 2025
When, in 1842, the Agri-Horticultural Society resolved to honour its founder, it appropriately fell to Dr. Wallich, followed by the president Sir J. P. Grant, to do what is thus recorded: "Dr.
But the botanic spirit that Dr. Anderson had started remained alive in Madras; for in 1835, when, to the regret of many, his gardens had been split up into building-sites for two private residences, there was still a sufficient number of botanically inclined people in the city to found the Agri-Horticultural Society of Madras, a still-energetic body whose beautiful gardens at Teynampet deserve to be more generally appreciated by the public than they are.
To England, the first commercial country in the world, its importance must be obvious." Ten years passed, Carey continued to watch and to extend his agri-horticultural experiments in his own garden, and to correspond with botanists in all parts of the world, but still nothing was done publicly in India.
Roxburgh of the Company's Botanic Garden Orders seeds and instruments of husbandry All his researches subordinate to his spiritual mission His eminence as a botanist acknowledged in the history of the science His own botanic garden and park at Serampore The poet Montgomery on the daisies there Borneo Carey's paper in the Asiatic Researches on the state of agriculture in Bengal The first to advocate Forestry in India Founds the Agri-Horticultural Society of India Issues queries on agriculture and horticulture Remarkable results of his action On the manufacture of paper His expanded address on agricultural reform His political foresight on the importance of European capital and the future of India An official estimate of the results in the present day On the usury of the natives and savings banks His academic and scientific honours Destruction of his house and garden by the Damoodar flood of 1823 Report on the Horticultural Society's garden The Society honours its founder.
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