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Th x of a referred to has been forwarded separately to 
your address by carrie 
I am, &e. 
(Signed) C. E. BERNARD, 
Secretary, 
The Dir Revenue and Statistics Department. 
Royal Teta Kew. 
{ Enclosure. | 
ACCOMPANIMENT to the Bombay Government Despatch to Her 
ajesty’s Secretary of State for India in Council, No. 52, dated 13th 
re se 
Report by the Offic ciating Director, Land Records and Agriculture, 
No. 2262, a 23rd N Bien 1889 :— 
Undersigned has the honour to forward by rail a box containing six 
young shoots (useful for planting) kat a full grown plant of Agave 
Serie the common species of Agave grown in the Bombay Presi- 
D The 
fibre] Kiih Bombay comes chiefly from the Bom je T mesh, riz E 
Central Provinces. It is not possible to ascertain from the trade returns 
details of the export feud’ in the Aloe fibre 
he Bombay Aloe fibre is prepared from arti vivipara, Agave 
americana being rare. The plant grows wild, but nowhere in abun- 
dance. _Nor is it ‘ae cultivated "n for BEE ae 
and Se it requires a p eadth than rri hedge planto, it is 
reported to be not injurious t a nts in the vicinity. It grows well 
near watercourses, and this habit of the plant is uk to A i piedat 
by using it for live fences along boundaries of survey numbers which 
are subject to a rush of water. pre uch places it is planted close 
with a view to allow water only to pass through the fence and retain 
silt. When planted sufficiently close it serves as a dam and prevents 
entrance of rain-water of neighbouring fields. In the Bombay Karnátak 
it is the chief An plant along railway lines. et Fencing i ii is planted 
oF agai insta stone. After E tear what remains is fibre. In Bijápur 
the fibre is sometimes separated by drying the avi and beating them 
with a odoh mallets. 
