HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF INDIA

Carey's relation to science and economics--State of the
peasantry--Carey a careful scientific observer--Specially a
botanist--Becomes the friend of Dr. 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.

Not only was the first Englishman, who in modern times became a
missionary, sent to India when he desired to go to Tahiti or West
Africa; and sent to Bengal from which all Northern India was to be
brought under British rule; and to Calcutta--with a safe asylum at
Danish Serampore--then the metropolis and centre of all Southern
Asia; but he was sent at the very time when the life of the people
could best be purified and elevated on its many sides, and he was
specially fitted to influence each of these sides save one. An
ambassador for Christ above all things like Paul, but, also like