STUDIES IN INDIAN SUGARCANES, No. 3 



THE CLASSIFICATION OF INDIAN CANES, WITH SPECIAL 



REFERENCE TO THE SARETHA AND 



SUNNABILE GROUPS. 



BY 



C. A. BARBER, Sc.D. (Cantab.), 



ERRATA. 



NEW YORK 

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nsefiil in replacing their parents. It was known that many of them did not 

 flower in North Lulia and that, in those that did, the anthers were closed and 

 the pollen inside was ill-formed and immature. It was hoped that the change 

 to South Indian conditions might induce some of them to flower, and that the 

 sexual organs might recover tone so as to become better formed and thus more 

 fertile. 



A very sharp distinction soon obtruded itself betv\een two classes of cane 

 varieties thus collected. There was a large series of thick, juicy canes, gener- 

 ally excellent in appearance. These were commonly grown on a crop scale 

 inthe more tropical parts of India but. in the northern parts, they were usually 

 grown in small plots under high cultivation, near large towns, in which they 

 were used for eating as a fruit. In contrast with this first class there was 

 another, of thin, hardy caiies, grown under field coi\ditions all over India, but 



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