A Guide to the Royal Botanic Garden, CalcuttaThacker, Spink, 1895 - 32 pages |
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aërial roots Amherstia nobilis amongst Anderson avenue Avenue runs bamboos Banyan Banyan avenue beautiful Bengal Benth Biermann Botanist branches British India Brownea C. B. Clarke Calcutta chiefly Cinchonas collection College gate Colonel Kyd's Colonel Robert Kyd colour conservatory Corypha crossing cultivation Curator distinguished Botanist Dyer Avenue Falconer avenue Ficus Bengalensis Flora Indica Flora of British flowers fruits genus Griffith Avenue group of Palms grove growing Herbarium Hooghly Hooker avenue Howrah Howrah gate Hugh Falconer indigenous Kyd's avenue Kyd's monument lake leave the Garden Linn longifolia mahogany trees Malayan species mound Nathaniel Wallich native Northern India observe Palmyra Palmyra bridge passes Peepul point of intersection Polyalthia Polyalthia longifolia river bank road roadway Robert Kyd Roxb Roxburgh avenue ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN seeds Shalimar side Sir Joseph south of India specimen stems Superintendent Swietenia Terminalia Catappa timber toddy tropical visitor volumes Wall Wallich Water gate Willd William Roxburgh
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Page 3 - Roxburgh was thus the first botanist who attempted to draw up a systematic account of the plants of India...
Page 18 - Quisquis. Ades. Si. Locus. Suavitate. Mentem. Permulcet. Aut. Admonet. Ut. Pie. Sentias. De. Deo. Habendus. In. Honore. Tibi. Roxburghius. Horum. Hortorum. Olim.
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Page 8 - AVERRHOA CARAMBOLA. — The caramba of Ceylon and Bengal. The fruit of this tree is about the size of a large orange, and, when ripe, is of a rich yellow color, with a very decided and agreeable fragrance. The pulp contains a large portion of acid, and is generally used as a pickle or preserve. In Java it is used both in the ripe and unripe state in pies ; a sirup is also made of the juice, and a conserve...
Page 5 - Company, and at .the same time a centre to which exotic plants of economic interest could be imported for experimental cultivation, and from which, in turn, they could be issued for distribution in the Company's possessions.
Page 5 - Garden in its early days was the demonstration by practical experiment that certain natural products, many of them of a most desirable kind, cannot be grown in Bengal; much money and bootless effort being thus saved to the country.
Page 6 - As regards horticulture, it may suffice to say that a large proportion of the kinds of exotic plants now found in private gardens in India have been introduced into the country through the agency of this Garden, and that the improved methods of cultivation which now obtain were to a great extent initiated here.