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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: direction they consider reforms should be introduced in the prevailing systems of gathering such produce, the Government would, I feel sure, lend an attentive ear to their suggestions. The forests in the Kuniki and Koranko districts are, relatively speaking, very accessible from here; Magbeli, from which place they can be entered, being distant about seven days' easy marching, and there is water carriage for light canoes from Benkia, two marches from Magbeli, down the Roquelle river. But these forests are small compared to those on the Anglo- Liberian frontier, along the Morro and Mano rivers, which extend for 800 or 1,000 miles. Had it not been for the border raids which have been carried on for the last eighteen to twenty years, I have no doubt they would have been exploited long ago; but there is an opportunity, now that the raiding has altogether ceased, for opening up these forests, which abound in rubber and elephants, and the southern portions of which are within two days' journey of Sulima. III.-RUBBER: GAMBIA BOTANIC STATION. K.B., 1898, pp. 40, 41.] There are four different species of rubber-producing plants growing in the station. The most common species are the native rubbers (Landolphia oivariensis and L. floridci). These abound on the Gambia, but owing to the ruthless manner in which the trees are tapped, it is feared they will soon disappear. Hevea brasiliensis (Para rubber).?A few plants of this are at the station, but they do not appear to be growing very well, owing to the long dry season. Gastilloa elastica (Central American rubber).?Several plants were brought out by me as already mentioned from Kew. They are now growing well, and are about two feet high. These plants are said to grow well in a deep warm soil, composed of loam and sandy c...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217985772 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217985777 |
| Weight | 0.77 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.53 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 234 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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