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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

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Number of visitors 5
Early opening on bank holidays 5
Lessons to young gardeners 5
Hail-storm of August 3 5
Botanic Gardens:
Palm House 6
Herbaceous ground 7
Tank for aquatics 7
Specimen trees 7
Orchid House 7
Tropical Fern House (use of teak wood in repairs) 7
New and interesting plants flowered for first time 7
Arboretum 8
Collection of elms 10
Injurious effect of unconsumed smoke from Brentford factories 10
Pinetum 10
Collections of Ribes, Deutzia, &c. 11
Supply of trees for planting Richmond Road and for the London Parks 11
Interchange of plants and seeds:
Statement of number of plants sent out 11
Argan tree 12
Columbian barks for India 12
Cinchona:
Assam 13
Burma 14
Central Africa 14
Ceylon 14
Jamaica 14
Mauritius 14
Sikkim 14
Singapore 15
Tinnivelly 15
Eucalyptus:
Assam 16
Bengal 16
Bombay 16
Jamaica 16
Saharunpore 16
Singapore 16
Zanzibar 16
Interchange of plants and seeds—cont.
Fodder plants:
Guinea grass 16
Prickly comfrey 17
Madras 17
Saharunpore 17
South Australia 17
Tèosintè 17
Bombay 17
Queensland 17
Saharunpore 17
Singapore 17
South Australia 17
Tagasaste 18
Madras 18
South Australia 18
India-rubbers:
Castilloa 18
Ceara scrap 19
Burma 19
Calcutta 19
Singapore 19
Zanzibar 19
Hevea 19
Burma 19
Calcutta 19
Jamaica 19
Zanzibar 19
Liberian coffee:
Burma 20
Dominica 20
Jamaica 22
Seychelles 22
Singapore 22
Queensland 22
Zanzibar 22
Mahogany cultivation in Old World:
Bombay 23
Burma 23
Queensland 23
Saharunpore 24
Singapore 24page 4
Interchange of plants and seeds—cont.
Mesquit beans:
Bengal 24
Punjab 24
Saharunpore 24
South Australia 24
Pithecolobium Saman:
Bombay 24
Burma 24
Calcutta 25
Saharunpore 25
Sind 25
Tasmania 25
Statement of number of contributor of seeds and plants Enumeration of more important from—
Britain 25
Continent 27
Asia 27
Africa 28
New World 28
Australia and New Zealand 29
Supply of specimens for Science and Art Department 29
Indian and Colonial Botanic Gardens: 29
Select notes from official correspondence:
Candelillo 30
Dominica Pimento 31
Food products:
Arracacha 31
Chestnut flour 32
Thé de Montagne 32
Select notes from official correspondence—Cont.
Paper materials:
Bamboo 32
Broussonetia papyrifera 33
Esparto 33
Guadua 33
Indian forest fibres 34
Molinia caerulea 35
Portuguese esparto .35
Rye straw 35
Razor strops 35
Textiles:
Bunkuss 36
Curculigo latifolia 36
Ningpo hats 36
Woods and Timbers:
Eagle wood 37
Lin-a-Loa 37
Nan-mu tree 37
Pai-cha wood 38
Rhus Thunbergii 38
Museums:
Transference of economico-botanical collections from the India Museum 38
Principal contributors 38
Physiological laboratory 40
Herbarium:
Principal contributions 40
Employment of Mr. C. B. Clarke
by the Indian Government 40
Botanical publications 42
Appendix 44

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