Edible Products. 



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[November, 1909. 



butter into two tablespoonfuls of flour, 

 add a pinch of salt and enough milk to 

 make a thin batter. Add the beaten 

 yolks of two eggs, beat well and then 

 stir in gently the beaten whites. Put 

 the fruit into the batter. Pry the pieces 

 in deep very hot lard. Lay on brown 

 paper to drain. Sprinkle sugar over 

 them and serve hot. N. B. B. 



Granadilla Salad. — Cut the flesh of a 

 firm fruit into small pieces and cover 

 thoroughly with a good dressing, Serve 

 ice-cold on lettuce leaves. 



Granadilla Sweet Pickles.— This is 

 another fruit which can be utillized for 

 pickling. Select matured but rather 

 green fruit and cut flesh into cubes. 

 Put on the fire in water with a pinch of 

 salt and let boil very slightly. Drain and 

 place in jar. Boil five minutes one pint 

 of strong vinegar, two teacups of sugar, 

 scant teaspoonful of whole cloves, also 

 one of whole allspice, and a tablespoonful 

 broken cinnamon sticks. Pour over 

 fruit in jar. Pour same syrup boiling 



hot over the fruit the two succeeding 

 days. 



Granadilla Butter.— Cut up the flesh 

 and boil. Drain off water and mash. 

 Press out the water of the fruit through 

 a cloth, then add one cup sugar to every 

 three cups of fruit and ground cinnamon 

 to taste- Boil and stir till thick. 



Granadilla Pudding. — Cook tapioca 

 thin enough to pour readily. Flavour 

 with lemon juice. Have granadilla cut 

 into dice and sugared a little. Pour the 

 hot tapioca over the fruit, stir and allow 

 to cool. Serve with custard sauce. 



Granadilla Sherbet. — Press out the 

 juice from a ripe granadilla. Add two 

 cups of cold watei and the juice of two 

 lemons and sweeten to taste. Freeze. 

 When frozen almost hard mix in the 

 well-beaten whites of two eggs and finish 

 freezing beatiug well- 



Granadilla Refresoo.— Press out juice 

 of ripe grauadiila. Add juice of two 

 lemons and a pint of water. Sweeten 

 and serve ice-cold. 



TIMBERS. 



THE NEED FOR AN AFFORESTA- 

 TION BRANCH OF THE FOREST 

 DEPARTMENT. 



(From the Indian Forester, Vol. XXXV., 

 No. 4, April, 1909.) 

 In the March issue we reproduced on 

 page 176 an article from Indian Engineer- 

 ing drawing attention to the want of 

 attention paid in this country to both 

 deforestation and afforestation, which 

 are rightly described as lying at the 

 very heart of successful forest conser- 

 vation. There is no getting away from 

 the fact that vast areas all over India 

 have been denuded of forest during the 

 past half century, and the cause of this 

 denudation is to a great extent due to 

 the continued progress of agricultural 

 and industrial pursuits under the "Pax 

 Britaunica." At the same time very 

 little afforestation work has been done. 

 We have repeatedly drawn attention to 

 the urgency of afforesting waste lands 

 in order to promote the well-being of 

 agriculture which is the most important 

 industry in the Empire. We have 

 pointed out time after time the advan- 

 tageous results which would be attained 

 by such afforestation, such as increase of 

 rainfall, regulation of water-supply, 

 prevention of floods and erosion, moder- 

 ation of climate, improvement of irri- 

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gation, provision of a plentiful supply 

 of fuel, fodder and timber for agricul- 

 tural purposes, saving of manure for the 

 crops and ultimate prevention of famine. 

 Even in conservative England, the ques- 

 tion of afforestation has lately received 

 a great deal of attention, and in this 

 issue we are publishing the recommen- 

 dations of the Royal Commission which 

 has recently been enquiring into the 

 subject. And yet in India where we 

 already have a professional department 

 no steps have been taken to plan and 

 carry out a suitable scheme. 



It may well be that many will hold 

 that the Forest Department in this 

 country has not fulfilled its duty in 

 these respects, and certainly there is 

 much to be said for their view. We 

 must point out however that the Depart- 

 ment has with difficulty obtained the 

 present scale of staff which is still 

 markedly inadequate for the proper- 

 management of the lands already re- 

 served as forests. Every step of progress 

 in forestry has been an uphill fight, and 

 with the opposition that it has met with 

 at every point it is surprising that so 

 much has been attained. Fifty years 

 ago all the lands which are now under 

 the Forest Department were waste lands 

 under the management of District 

 Officers, and it is a strange fact that in 



