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Our Botanical Column

Nature (London), 1875-10, Vol.12 (313), p.565-565 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

ISSN: 0028-0836 ;EISSN: 1476-4687 ;DOI: 10.1038/012565a0

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    Our Botanical Column
  • Is Part Of: Nature (London), 1875-10, Vol.12 (313), p.565-565
  • Description: EXOTIC TIMBER-TREES IN MAURITIUS.-Amongst useful plants that have been introduced into countries distant from their native habitats, the timber-trees are of some interest, inasmuch as beyond the proof of their establishment in foreign climates and soils, some time is needed to prove what effects the change may have on the quality of the timber itself, for on this alone depends the value of the experiment in a commercial point of view. It is, however, satisfactory to learn that some well-known timber-trees that have been introduced into Mauritius through the instrumentality of the Royal Gardens, Kew, are in a flourishing state. Thus, the mahogany [Swietenia mahagoni), one or the oldest and most valued of furniture woods, has made a very rapid growth, forming, in three or four years after the sowing of the seeds, trees about twenty feet in height, with stems from three to six inches in diameter. In India, likewise, the mahogany thrives well, and as a proof that the wood is valuable, it may be stated that a tree blown down in the Calcutta Botanic Gardens during the great cyclone realised over 1,000 rupees. Logwood (Hæmatoxylon campcachianum) is reported also to grow well in Mauritius, and it moreover makes excellent hedges, far superior, it is said, to hawthorn. It has been quite naturalised on the hills and waste lands in the vicinity of Port Louis, and annually produces large quantities of seeds.
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0028-0836
    EISSN: 1476-4687
    DOI: 10.1038/012565a0
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
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