CO129-038 - Sir Bonham - 1851 [10-12] & Public Offices - 1851 [10-12] — Page 174

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The Dehra Dhoon is on many 'admirably suited to be the scene of

extensive cultivation of the plant, and it is most important that the adaptation of its soil & climate to this purpose be satisfactinly established, before further efforts are make for The extension the manufacture in Mat quarter.

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of

attaches

Mr Fortime evidently much importance to the Zeminda plantations / pip: 6-9). These apparently afford fair promise of rendering the Cultivation & manufacture of tea both profitable and popular in the Province, Your attention is particularly requested to the improvement and extension of these plantations - Your be most effectually rendered to the Civil Offices of the District by fiving them the best vaneties of the plant / 1:8), by devoiding competent Chowodzies, as Agricultural Justmeter, [p: 8) and by encouraging

the mani - facture as well as the cultivation of tea by the Gemindass themselves (fi14.

aid

may

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The Lient. Governer is prepared to receive & act upon any propositions you may offer for the promotion of three very

inferta cant objects.

5.

deserves

er

The foot note to page 13, well

your

attention-Efforts thened be made through Doctor Falconer, Ater well qualified persons in China. & Calcutta to obtain the fruit and the bamboo there mentioned. The explan attending the transfert of the plant: wik be borne by the Government, and every effort that you many suggest will be used to ensure the success of the measures

lake to procure, Mese useful products. 6. It is probable that from

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as well as

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have obtained,

from the personal

intercourse. you have heed with Mr Fortune, you may

be able to

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draft some brief and simple_ instuctions as to the kind of =facturers who are to anter, the " best means of fecuring them, and

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