The recently reclaimed Agri-Horticultural Society (AHS) on Cathedral Road is a treasure trove for plant taxonomists, floristic officers and scholars of natural history. The hope of access henceforth for academic purposes to this unexplored haven is good news.
As a botanist, my understanding of the history of AHS and the contribution of its founding members made me visit AHS with the hope of sighting the plants that were recorded in The Handbook of Trees, Shrubs and Herbaceous Plants growing in the Madras Agri-Horticultural Society’s Garden by Hugh Cleghorn (1853), edited by Robert Brown (1862) and updated by JJ Wood (1866).
