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l-iunda (of SiMp.: ,,/, ( ( Uardwun) ; and 



the i>nri (of Hardwam. ((') caiie> are the /.//<////. -i .,r mn (of Surat) ; 

 Malahari (of Slirat) ; tile wi/m;i Yellow -reet. , MMMOfa 



(of humraon) ; and the Saharanpuri Hun-illy). 



The (B) and (D) canes of this classification M-CIII to corn-npond to t!..- 

 truly indigenous cane, of India which Hadi t'i.u|.> under tin- mont general 

 Indian name tikh. Of the former the foil,., ,-d : 



i-insi or Bamboo or betta knhhu (of Souti fmllu 



hihlnt (hullu = grass, and kaf>hu = sugai th MarAtha) ; 



MMtta( small) -bill- ( white) -knbl.n (\ K hana pur and South Maratha) ; 

 i (of Dumraoii) ; dhniil or tilntnr (of Ca \\np. lly and Shah- 



jahaiipur) ; matna (of ditto) ; and rnkrn (of Shahjahai-pur). 



The (Di cane-, are as follows ; pansnhi (of Behea) ; khan (of Duinraon 

 and Bardwan) ; the dikchan (of Cawupore and Shahjahanpur); and the 

 iinintia (of the same pla 



Lastly, the (E) canes of Mollison and Leather seem to correspond closely 

 with the coloured ukh canes of Hadi. The examples given by the l><\ 

 authors are bhuri, phojbhuri and songadi (of Surat) ; the Purple cane (of 

 Bijapur, Bassein and Thana) ; and the kare kabbu (kare black) (of 

 Belgium, Khanapur and Dharwar). 



I have enumerated the chief canes mentioned by Mollison and Leather, 

 and not those given by Hadi, because the former are applicable to a wider 

 area, and at the same time, so far as the United Provinces are concerned, 

 correspond with many of those jjiven by Hadi. The Imperial Gazetteer 

 (iii., 39) says the canes of India may be broadly grouped into (a) thick, 

 juicy, soft kinds which ordinarily require very liberal cultivation and 

 irrigation, and (6) thin, hard, less juicy canes which, with well-distri- 

 buted rainfall, succeed with less liberal cultivation and with sparing 

 irrigation or even without any. 



[Cf. Leather and Mollieon, in Atjri. Lcdfj., 1898, No. 8 ; Mukerji, Handbook 

 Ind. Agri., 1901, 392 ; Mollison, Textbook Ind. Agri., 1901, iii., 109, 153-81 (a 

 reprint from Agri. Ledg.) ; Basu, Agri. Lohardaga, 1890, i., 37-8 ; Heuze, Let 

 PI. Indust., 1895, iv., 110-37; Kobus, Improv. Sugar-cane by Chemical Select., 

 in Kew Bull., 1899, 45 ; Kew Bull. (add. ser., i.). 12-4, 125-8 ; Eckart, Varieties 

 of Cane grown by the Hawaiian Sugar Planter*' Assoc., Bull., 1903, No. 1 ; Watts, 

 Var. of Sugar-cane Grown in Antigua in 1893 ; also Exper. in Leeward Islands 

 (Antigua and St. Kitts), 1903, pt. i. ; also 1905, Exper. British Guiana, 1904 ; 

 Stubbs, Sugar -Cane, Louisiana U.S. Dept. Agri. Exper. Slat. Rec.. i., 63 ; 1896, 

 vi., 39, 411 ; 1901, xii., 438. 1033-4 ; Hosie, Rept. Prov. of Ssu'ch'uan. China. 

 1904, 22-4 ; Rev. des Culi. Colon., 1901, ix., 258-61, 322, 324 ; International 

 Sugar Journal, iv., 265-70 ; Indian Exper. Farm Repts. : Poona, 1897, 14-7 ; 

 1898,14-6; 1900,13-4; Sibpur, 1893-4.3-4; Bardwan, 1900-1, 11; Cawn- 

 pore, 1889-90, 6-8 ; 1894-5, 13-4 ; 1895-6, 23-7 ; 1897-8, 25-6 ; 1899-1900. 

 21-3; 1901-2,14; 1902-3,13; 1904-5,10-11; Barber, Scheme for Provincial 

 Enquiry into the Sugar-cane Indust , 1906 ; Selection and Disinfection of Sugar- 

 cane Cuttings, in Agri. Journ. Ind., 1906, i., pt. iii., 252-3 ; also Barber, Origin 

 of New Sugar-canes by Bud -Variation, 1906, i., pt. iv., 285-9 ; Butler, Select, of 

 Sugar-cane Cuttings, 1907, ii., pt. ii., 193-201.] 



Seedling Canes. In the concluding paragraph under history, refer- Seedling 

 ence has been made to the flowering of the cane (p. 933). But it Canea. 

 had long been supposed that the sugar-cane, as with some other culti- 

 vated plants propagated by cuttings, had lost the power of producing 

 seed. Unlike the beet it was only, therefore, open to improvement by 

 the chance occurrence of bud variations or by the chemical selection of 

 canes individually richer in sugar. x.tni 



As a matter of fact, the sugar-cane is, though sparingly fertile, not 



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