Report on Indian Fibres and Fibrous Substances Exhibited at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886; By C.F. Cross, E.J. Bevan, and C.M. King, in Association with E. Joynson, Esq., with Notes of Methods of Treatment and Uses Prevalent in India, by Dr
Report on Indian Fibres and Fibrous Substances Exhibited at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition, 1886; By C.F. Cross, E.J. Bevan, and C.M. King, in Association with E. Joynson, Esq., with Notes of Methods of Treatment and Uses Prevalent in India, by Dr...
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...unsuitable for paper-making. Experiments recently conducted have proved that a clump of bamboo is killed after a very few years if a large percentage of the shoots be systematically removed. The natives of India, and of China, however, do make paper from bamboo, and do not appear to regard it as absolutely necessary to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1887 Excerpt: ...unsuitable for paper-making. Experiments recently conducted have proved that a clump of bamboo is killed after a very few years if a large percentage of the shoots be systematically removed. The natives of India, and of China, however, do make paper from bamboo, and do not appear to regard it as absolutely necessary to use the young shoots only. The following are the principal bamboos of India that may come to be used in the manufacture of paper: --Bambusa Arundinacea.--Burma. B. Balcooa.--Bengal and Assam. B. Brandisii.--Burma. B. Tulda.--Bengal. B. Vdlgaris.--Throughout India. Dendrocalamus Hamiltonii.--Bengal and Assam. D. Strictus.--The male bamboo on the lower hills throughout India. Badhinia Vahlii, W. and A.; Leguminose.--Maljan, malu, Hind.; Chehur, Beng.; Adda, Tarn.; Sihar, CP. Ultimate Fibre.--Length, 2-3 mm. This is one of the most extensive, as it is one of the most abundant and most useful of Indian climbers. It is found all along the lower Himalaya from the Chenab eastward, in North and Central India, and Tenasserim. It abounds throughout all the warm lower mountainous tracts, being most abundant in the mountainous forest of the great table-land of India, and crossing the Gangetic basin, it occurs again in all the forests which skirt the foot of the Himalaya. "Mr. Koutledge, of Sunderland, was, I believe, the E first person who drew prominent attention to the fibre derived from this plant. Long before even Mr. Boutledge's attention was directed to it, however, the late Dr. Forbes Boyle spoke highly of it under its vernacular name, and specimens were exhibited at the Great International Exhibition of 1851. The fibre is universally used by the natives of India for the purpose of rope-making, and it stands high in their esteem. Mr. Eoutledge...
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