The Forests and Gardens of South IndiaW. H. Allen, 1861 - 412 pagina's |
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Pagina vi - Government nor the community at large were deriving from the Indian forests those advantages which they were calculated to afford. Not only was there a most wasteful and uncalled-for destruction of useful material, but numerous products — valuable to science, and which might be profitably applied to the interests of social life — lay neglected within the depths of the forests.
Pagina 16 - Sumpagee passes vast clearings are being made. In the Coonoor Ghaut six large plantations may be seen, and there are very large and numerous holdings, above thirty, in the Wynaad, which from year to year will increase. The plant has succeeded admirably in Mysore, and there are patches of cultivation in Madura, and even in North Canara.
Pagina 12 - This important dyewood has engaged my attention. It appears to grow with great luxuriance in South Malabar, and is cultivated rather extensively by the Moplahs, who plant a number of the seeds at the birth of a daughter. The trees require fourteen or fifteen years to come to maturity, and then become her dowry. I saw more on the banks of the Nellumboor...
Pagina 385 - THE FORESTER: A Practical Treatise on the Planting, Rearing, and Management of Forest Trees. By JAMES BROWN, Wood Manager to the Earl of Seafleld.
Pagina 379 - Wallich, a plant of which complete and well-preserved specimens are requested, in order that it may be described and figured. The seeds per se have been imported into England, while the empty capsules are found in the drug-shops of China. Are the latter exported from Siam to China?
Pagina 13 - Dalbergia arbórea, and piles of them are lashed to the sides of the pattimars going to Bombay. The larger ones are selected as outriggers for...
Pagina 379 - Cassia Bark. — Specimens are much desired of the tree which affords this bark in Java, on the Malabar coast, in the south of China, and in Cochin China. Botanical specimens should in all instances include good samples of the bark, young and old, obtained from the same tree. Cassia Buds. — These are the immature fruits of a Cinnamomum, native of Cochin China, specimens of which are requested. An inferior kind of Cassia Buds, known as Lovengoopoo, is found at Madras.
Pagina 13 - The larger ones are selected as out-riggers for ferry-boats, or studding-sail booms for small craft. In addition to the vast export by sea, it is estimated that two lacs are taken from the Soopah talook eastward. The Malabar bamboo is much smaller than that of Pegu (Bambusa gigantea), which is 8 inches in diameter.
Pagina 126 - ... ineradicable exhauster of the soil, and by-and-bye the virgin forests of this country will have entirely ceased, if some sharper supervision be not exercised by the Government over the timber-felling mania of the native. As Colonel Beddome remarks of the like devastation in India : " the value of the timber thus destroyed by one man, calculating it by the number of logs it might have yielded, is at least twenty times as great as the value of the crop of ragi obtained in the two years that cultivation...
Pagina 379 - Massoy, Sintoc, are objects of commerce in the Indian Archipelago, and are but imperfectly known in Europe. The traveller should embrace the opportunity, when it occurs, of seeing the bark collected, and of obtaining authentic specimens of it, and of the tree yielding it Massoy Bark is produced on the west coast of New Guinea.