On the hedge plants of India, and the conditions which adapt them for special purposes and particular localities / by Hugh F.C. Cleghorn.
- Date:
- [1850?]
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Credit: On the hedge plants of India, and the conditions which adapt them for special purposes and particular localities / by Hugh F.C. Cleghorn. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![[From (he Annals and Magazine of Natural History for Oct.. 1850.] On the Hedge Plants of India, and the condit ions which adapt them for special purposes and particular localities. By Dr. Hugh F. C. Cleghorn, Hon. E.I.C.S.* It is my purpose to notice the hedge-plants observed in the Peninsula, as well as a few indigenous species of frequent occur- rence, from the employment of which advantages may be derived. My intention is to glance at them under their botanical and agricultural characters, and to allude to some which deserve to be generally diffused with a view to their ceconomical properties and practical utility. Since my admission on the Madras establishment in 1842, I have traversed a considerable portion of that Presidency in the execution of duty, including the Southern Division, the territories of Mysore, with parts of Canara, and the Southern Mahratta country. Along the line of march, and in the course of botanical rambles, I made rough camp notes as to the vege- tation and genera] appearance of the country. From want of leisure, these were unavoidably very imperfect, yet they may serve to attract attention to a subject which seems to me of no small importance; and I trust some little advantage may be derived from my observations. The system of Iudian husbandry continues much in the rude state our fathers found it a century ago. In the day of rapid progress at home, agriculture in Hindostan evinces few signs of improvement. The farming utensils are simple and wretched; the most abject utilitarianism characterizes field operations. With the llyot no motive seems to exist beyond providing the means of immediate subsistence: he scratches the soil with his black-wood plough, tipped with iron, and made light with the pole of bamboo, so as to be carried on the shoulder; he drops * Read to the British Association, August 1, 1850. An abstract was previously laid before the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 16](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21954616_0003.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
