ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
No. 99.) -— SEPTEMBER. [1894. 
CCCCVI._ VEGETABLE RESOURCES OF INDIA. 
An interesting Memorandum on the Resources of British India has 
lately been prepared by Dr. George Watt, C.I.E., Reporter on Economic 
Products to the Government of India. A copy has communicated 
and the eon ace development of the chief vegetable resources of the 
Indian Empir 
British Tif 4 as covered by this Memorandum, consists roughly of 
699 million acres, which support a Ve reco ai say 221} millions. 
The agricultural products are grouped as follow 
(a) Food crops (wheat, rice, barley, millets, E sugar, spices, sxi 
(b) Oil-seeds "linstod, rape and mustard, castor, sesamum, ground- 
nut, etc 
(c) Fibres (cotton, jute, hemp, rhea, silk, wool, e 
(d) Dyeing and tanning materials (indigo, EN al, etc.). 
(e) Drugs and narcotics, ete. (opium, tea, coffee, tobacco, cinchona, 
Mert bis mp, etc. 
(f) Miscellaneous products s, cutch, lae, india-rubber, palm sugar, 
cocoa-nut [fibre and oil], myrobalans, etc. 
Wirp Pnopnvcrs. 
Miscellaneous products, such as cutch, lac, india rubber, are not 
exactly agrieultural erops; but these produets form a somewhat signi- 
aua feature of India as compared wit uropean experience of the 
large tracts of country are devoted to it. - Bo; in the same way, the date 
and palmyra palms are sources of wealth to many parts of India. 
The mahwa tree may be spoken of as one of the most valuable cultivated 
or semi-cultivated plants of large tracts of country, affording, as it does, 
ood, oil and alcoho e singhara, or water-chestnut (like the 
water-cress of Europe) i is of considerable importance to wide areas of 
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