the most successful cultivation on a commercial scale of coffee and
improved cotton, for the successful introduction of European fruits,
for the improvement of indigenous fruits, for the successful
introduction from the Eastern Islands of the mangosteen or doorian,
and for the manufacture of cheese equal to Warwickshire, had the
best results in some cases. In 1825 Mr. Lamb of Dacca was presented
by "Rev. Dr. Carey in the chair" with the gold medal for 80 lbs. of
coffee grown there. Carey's own head gardener became famous for his
cabbages; and we find this sentence in the Society's Report just
after the founder's death:--"Who would have credited fifteen years
ago that we could have exhibited vegetables in the Town Hall of
Calcutta equal to the choicest in Covent Garden?" The berries two
centuries ago brought from Arabia in his wallet by the pilgrim Baba
Booden to the hills of Mysore, which bear his name, have, since that
Dacca experiment, covered the uplands of South India and Ceylon.
Before Carey died he knew of the discovery of the indigenous
tea-tree in its original home on the Assam border of Tibet--a
discovery which has put India in the place of China as a producer.

In the Society's Proceedings for 9th January 1828 we find this
significant record:--"Resolved, at the suggestion of the Rev. Dr.
Carey, that permission be given to Goluk Chundra, a blacksmith of
Titigur, to exhibit a steam engine made by himself without the aid
of any European artist." At the next meeting, when 109 malees or
native gardeners competed at the annual exhibition of vegetables,
the steam engine was submitted and pronounced "useful for irrigating
lands made upon the model of a large steam engine belonging to the
missionaries at Serampore." A premium of Rs. 50 was presented to
the ingenious blacksmith as an encouragement to further exertions of
his industry. When in 1832 the afterwards well-known