The Indian Forester April 1879

Numeous memoirs have been published with the objeCt of attracting the attention of agriculturists and foresters but as yet no one has thought seriously of making the attempt to derive the profit which the growth of this species on the large scale would secure.* It is indeed now more than fifteen years that the species was first planted on the Mediterranean littoral still the stage of exper [...] The indigenous species in Bombay are Chrysophyllum Rgxbughii tursiphul;" Sapota tomentosa " Koombul ;" Iso iandra Candolleana a tree of the same genus as the Guttapercha tree ; Bassia latifolia the celebrated Mowah from the flowers of which Movfah spirit is distilled and from the seeds of which a large quantity of oil is obtained used for making soap in the Kaira Zillah and the wood of [...] MPbcco consists of the southernslopes of the Atlas range which stretches in a curve from Cape Gher on the Atlantic to Cape Deir opposite to Gibraltar and falls from an elevation of 16 000 feet to the low lands in a succession of terraces exposed to the full influence of the north-west wind laden with the T 1"342 THE ARGUN' TREE Or _ritAROCCO. [...] The natural heat of the country lying so near the Tropic of Cancer is therefore tempered both by the rain-clouds which hang over it from October to February and during the spring and summer months by the south wind which comes over the snow which lies pepetu3lly on the summits of the minor range of the Atlas &nun. [...] The Mowah is one of the noblest native forest trees of India and is plentiful everywhere in Westerly India at least in the Concans on the Ghats in Gujerat and Rajwara and if more of a tree like the Argan is wanted in India it would probably be more profitable to encourage the extended cultivation of the indignous Mowah than to squander money and time in the attempt which might after al