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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.
To him the latter year was ever memorable, not for such honours which he had not sought, but for a flood of the Damoodar river, which, overflowing its embankments and desolating the whole country between it and the Hoogli, submerged his garden and the mission grounds with three feet of water, swept away the botanic treasures or buried them under sand, and destroyed his own house.
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