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Excerpt from Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, 1904 As may be gathered from the situations in which it is found, the tree should thrive in the climate of the South of Europe, also on mountain slopes in many parts of India, Ceylon, the West Indies, and in South Africa and many parts of Australia. Owing to its valuable economic properties, a good deal of interest was taken a few years ago by Kew in the introduction of the tree to India and to other British Possessions where it was likely to thrive. As will be shown later, a measure of success has attended its cultivation in the Nilgiris, and it has also been grown in South Australia, the West Indies, and in the South of Europe. A portion of the stem of a tree raised from seed supplied from Kew and grown by Sir Thomas Hanbury, at La Mortola was placed in the Kew Museum in 1884. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.