40 Select Plants for Industrial Culture 



Artemisia Cina, Berg. 



Kurdistan. This herb- furnishes the genuine santonica-seeds (or 

 rather flowers and fruits), a vermifuge of long-established use. Some 

 other Asiatic species yield a similar drug. 



Artemisia Dracunculus, Linne". 



Northern Asia. The " Tarragon or Estragon." A perennial herb, 

 used as a condiment. Its flavor depends on two volatile oils, one 

 of them peculiar to the plant. Hardy in Norway to lat. 63 52' 

 (Schuebeler). Propagation by division of root; the wild plant has 

 but little flavor (Vilmorin). 



Artemisia Mutellina, Villars. 



Alps of Europe. This aromatic, somewhat woody plant deserves 

 to be established in any alpine region. This plant and A. glacialis, 

 L., A. rupestris, L. and A. spicata, Wulf. comprised under the name 

 of " Genippi," serve for the preparation of the Extrait d' Absinthe 

 (Brockhaus). 



Artemisia Pontica, Linne". 



Middle and Southern Europe, Western Asia. More aromatic and 

 less bitter than the ordinary wormwood. Hardy to lat. 63 45' in 

 Norway (Schuebeier). Many other species of this genus deserve 

 attention of the culturist. 



Artocarpus COmmunis, R. and G. Forster. (A. incisa, Linne" fil.) 

 South Sea-Islands, Moluccas and Sunda-Islands. 

 The Tahiti "Bread-fruit tree." It stretches in the Sandwich- 

 Islands through cultivation almost beyond the tropics. According 

 to Dr. Seemann's excellent account seedless varieties exist, and 

 others with entire leaves and with smooth and variously shaped and 

 sized fruits; others again ripening earlier, others later, so that ripe 

 bread-fruit is obtainable more or less abundantly throughout the year. 

 The fruit is simply boiled or baked or converted into more compli- 

 cated kinds of food. Starch is obtainable from the bread-fruit very 

 copiously. The very fibrous bark can be beaten into a sort of 

 rough cloth. The light wood serves for canoes. The exudation, 

 issuing from cuts, made into the stem, is in use for closing the seams 

 of canoes, and could be turned to technic account. 



Artocarpus integrifolia, Linne" fil. 



India. The famous "Jack-Tree," ascending like the allied A. 

 Lakoocha (Roxburgh) to 4,000 feet ; only fit for places free of frost. 

 The fruit attains exceptionally a weight of 801bs.; it is eaten raw or 

 variously prepared; the seeds when roasted are not inferior to chest- 

 nuts (Dr. Roxburgh). 



Arundinaria falcata, Nees. 



The Nirgal- or Ningala-Bamboo of the Middle Himalayan zone, 

 The canes attain a diameter of only 4 inches, are durable and applied 

 to manifold useful purposes. This bamboo does not necessarily 



