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these Oaks I suppose is useful for tanning. What a pity, then, 
that all is wasted! One firm at Cawnpore uses over 100,000 
maunds of bark a year, or about 3,700 tons. Surely if the bark 
was of any use it could have been ground and compressed at 
Naini Tal, and supplied to Cawnpore at a less rate than the 
present article used for tanning, the “ Babool,” or x4.cacia arabica. 
There are many things here that might be turned to account. 
Apricots and Plums are simply wild all over Naini Tal. The 
former is small and of poor flavour, but makes excellent jam. 
The Plum is often nice to eat, but not large, nor of sufficiently 
good quality to introduce into England: it looks like a very 
large Bullace, but is sweet and pulpy. I hear a firm of confec¬ 
tioners in Calcutta have already turned both these fruits to good 
account, and are making fine “ pulp ” (I don’t mean the rubbish 
exported from France, but good, honest, sour jam), to be worked 
up in their Calcutta factory. There are many fruit farms esta¬ 
blished round here. The Government have a large nursery near, 
whence thousands of “ grafted” trees are sent oufievery year of 
very indifferent varieties. They issue a catalogue of some 150 
varieties. It would save them a lot of trouble, and the buyers 
much bad language, if the Forest Department would select 
about ten really fine Apples, and the same number of Pears 
and Peaches, and propagate these, true to name, and supply 
these only to the people who intend planting them. 
Cheena Mountain, the home of Cupressus torulosa (see 
fig. 108) is a most interesting place for the botanist, and I cannot 
attempt to give the names of all the beautiful herbaceous plants 
I saw there to-day (September 28). This is not the time of year 
to see it in its glory ; but a few names may be of use to some 
perhaps. 
List of Plants on Cheena. 
Aquilegias, Primula denticulata, a Bracken very much like 
our English one, Desmodiums, two Lilies, one with large white 
flowers, much like Wallichianum, another pink with recurved seg¬ 
ments. These will soon be exterminated, as they are pulled up, 
roots and all, to decorate the rooms of Europeans. A fine blue 
Thistle, white and blue Asters, of several kinds—one is very 
pretty when hanging in masses from the rocks—Centaureas with 
white leaves and large yellow flowers, Thalictrums, Sage-like 
plants in great variety, Wild Thyme, a purple Geranium like 
