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The Future of the Date Palm in India

1885

This juice is naturally stored up in the stem for the purpose of leaf-making and growth of the tree; and also for the production of the fruit and its seed. [...] Wishing to learn something about the history the extent and mode of cultivation of the Sindh date palm and of the mode of curing its fruit I wrote to the Deputy Commissioner of Mooltan Mr. [...] In another part of the book having by that time tasted many kinds of dates Palgrave says—" the khalas ' date is the `facile princeps ' of its kind and bears to ordinary dates the same relation that the Bombay mango bears to the junli ' mango." It is grown in Hofhoof ' on the Eastern Coast of Arabia. [...] Being then in charge of the Horticultural Garden of Lucknow I addressed the Secretary to the Chief Comissioner of Oudh dated 4th September 1868 and suggested that some seeds of the best kinds of Arabian dates might be procured through the Political Resident"24 ARABIAN DATE PALM IN INDIA. [...] WITH the batch of seeds which reached Lucknow on the 3rd December 1869 a precis on the cultivation and propagation of the date palm in the vicinity of Bupre was also forwarded by the Political Resident of the Persian Gulf.
agriculture environment
Pages
122
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142089
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-viii E. Bonavia view
Chapter I. Origin of Cultivated Trees
5-9 unknown view
Chapter II. Species and Varieties of Phenix
10-14 unknown view
Chapter III. The Date Palm in Mooltan Sindh & C
15-21 unknown view
Chapter IV. Origin of the Date Palm in Oudh
22-34 unknown view
Chapter V. Cultivation and Propagation of the Date Palm in the Persian Gulf
35-39 unknown view
Chapter VI. Progress of the Imported date Palms in Oudh
40-46 unknown view
Chapter VII. Detailed Information Regarding Cultivation of the Date Palm in the Persian Gulf and Modes of Curing its Fruits
47-60 unknown view
Chapter VIII. Comparison between the Persian Gulf and Mooltan Modes of Cultivating the Date Palm
61-65 unknown view
Chapter IX. Advantages of Largely Extending the Cultivation of the Date Palm in India
66-69 unknown view
Chapter X. Scheme for Carrying Out the Project of Extensive Date Plantations in India
70-81 unknown view
Chapter XI. Rules for the Cultivation of the Date Palm in India
82-96 unknown view
Chapter XII. Conclusion
97-99 unknown view
Appendix
100-112 unknown view
Index
113-118 unknown view

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