Editor’s Note of Agro-Horticultural Garden, Alipore

Agro-Horticultural Garden is located in Alipur Road, Kolkata. The garden was the brainchild of a devout Danish Baptist missionary - William Carey, who was a nature lover and he set it up in the year 1820. The garden consists of various species of plants and trees, including Amherstia Nobiles, Monodora Grandiflora, Saraca Thaipingensis and Pterygota alta Diversifolia among many others. The plants are not just showy and elegant but some also have many medicinal properties. The garden, apart from the flower garden, also constitutes of green houses, a library, training center, nurseries, and tissue culture and research laboratories. It also maintains hostel facilities for students of the Cary Institute, an administrative office and secretarial residential complex. The garden remains open on each day from 7 AM to 5 PM but for members only.