Volume 1

Essay on the productive resources of India / By J.F. Royle.

  • John Forbes Royle
Date:
1840
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Credit: Essay on the productive resources of India / By J.F. Royle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    42] Ay BaP Bu Nady X, one eee NOTES ON THE INTRODUCTION OF USEFUL PLANTS INTO INDIA. Written at the request of the Governer-General, Lord Auckland, previous to his departure for India, by the Author.* THE introduction of Plants, both useful and ornamental, into India from other countries, though carried to some extent, has not yet been effected to the degree which is advisable, consi- dering the benefits to be derived, and the great probability of success, if proper principles be attended to, in the selection of plants and the places into which they are introduced. Of these, climate is the principal, and that of the provinces of the Bengal Presidency may be considered under the three heads: first, that of the Southern parts, or Bengal proper ; se- condly, that of the Northern; and thirdly, that of the Hill Provinces. 'The climate of Central India is different from all, but may be considered a modification, in some measure, of the first and second, combining the temperature of Bengal with the dryness of the north-western provinces. In introducing the seeds of annuals into any part of the Bengal Presidency, except the Hills, * Read 9th April 1836, and published in the Trans. of the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Tadia. Vol. i. p. 37.