The Forests And Gardens Of South India Classic Reprint

Excerpt from The Forests and Gardens of South India Giving the Latitude and Longitude of all Places of Note. Major R. V. Stephen, late of the Bengal Army, Revenue Survey Department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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This volume uncovers the interaction between people and the elements in very different British colonies throughout the world. Providing a rich overview of socio-environmental change, driven by imperial forces, this study examines a key global historical process.

Excerpt from Forestry in Southern India The Teak tree scientifically known as the Tectona grandis belongs to the natural order of Verbenaceae or Vervain order, a genus of dicotyledonous plants deriving its name from the Indian one of tekka or theka used to designate the principal species. The most important, if not the only species, is the Tectona grandis, a large tree, a native of India, the wood of which is well known by the name of Teak or Sagwc'in. It is hard, and durable, and of great use in building ships as well as for many other useful purposes, as it is very hard and of longer duration than the oak. It is often called the Indian Oak, having ashy-coloured and scaly bark with the young shoots, four-sided and grooved without stipules, large deciduous leaves measuring from twelve to twenty-four inches long, and from eight to sixteen inches broad, rough and covered with short stiff hairs above, whitish and downy beneath, panicles terminal, large cross armed divided in twos with a stemless fertile flower in each cleft or division covered with a brown mealy powder, and the stalks are deeply grooved with four prominent angles, and flowers numerous small white, the outer and inner envelopes, five to six cleft, stamens, six, ovary round hairy, four-celled cells, one seeded nut very hard. It flowers in June and July, and the seeds ripen in September and October. Dye - From the tender leaves a purple colour is extracted which is used as a dye for silk and cotton cloths. Medicinal.-the young leaves are eaten boiled with sugar in sore mouth, and the flowers prepared much in the same way in dropsy. The green fruits are compounded into an ointment and used for various skin eruptions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from On the Indian Hills: Or, Coffee-Planting in Southern India I Commend these sketches of adventurous life in a little-known of India with more confidence because they bring out in a simple but picturesque fashion the natural variety and woodland features of a great region, whose immense resources for forestry, plantations, and hunting are even now hardly comprehended by Indian authorities. My son, who has put these pages together from long-ago-collected material of notes made in all the novelty and rough experiences of pioneering in the southern jungles of Hindostan, has, happily I think for his book, nothing to say of the beaten tracks of Indian travel; and it is for this reason, because he breaks fresh ground, and because he describes with the pleasant simplicity of letters written for home reading strange and curious phases of jungle-life in these vast and half-explored woodlands of the Madras peninsula, that I am emboldened to express my own pleasure in reperusing his book, and glad to commend it to all who love the East and enjoy plain tales of the Asiatic hills excellently told. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses On account of their almost universal distribution and their great economic value grasses are of great importance to man. And yet very few people appreciate the worth of grasses. Although several families of plants supply the wants of man, the grass family exceeds all the others in the amount and the value of its products. The grasses growing in pasture land and the cereals grown all over the world are of more value to man and his domestic animals than all the other plants taken together. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Notes on Forestry The primeval forests, once occupying we know not now how much of the vast peninsula of India, have, in the ordinary course of cause and sequence, gone down before the spread of a civilisation supposed to have extended over nearly four thousand years, to make room for an industrious and increasing population. This has ever been the fate of forests in all civilised countries; but in the harder North there has always been a stage in which civilised communities, animated by the need of warmth and shelter, have interposed checks to further inroads on forest area. Local climatic conditions have rendered these influences to a great extent dormant in India. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.