. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. 140 USEFUL FIBER FT,ANTS OF THE WORLD. full account of tlic treatment of the plant in cultivation., from which extracts are reproduced: In Kolaba it is sown in November, after the rice is harvested, and the stalks are uprooted in March. In Kolhapur it is sown in August and harvested in December, by being cut when the plants are full grown. In Foona it is sown in July and ripens in October. In the central provinces and the northwestern provinces it is a kharif
. A descriptive catalogue of useful fiber plants of the world, including the structural and economic classifications of fibers. Fibers. 140 USEFUL FIBER FT,ANTS OF THE WORLD. full account of tlic treatment of the plant in cultivation., from which extracts are reproduced: In Kolaba it is sown in November, after the rice is harvested, and the stalks are uprooted in March. In Kolhapur it is sown in August and harvested in December, by being cut when the plants are full grown. In Foona it is sown in July and ripens in October. In the central provinces and the northwestern provinces it is a kharif crop, being sown with the advent of the rains, but in Bengal it is sown a little earlier, namely, from 15th of April to 15th of Juue. In Madras the sowings take place still earlier. In the experiments performed at the Saidapet farm. Madras, sunn was sown on the 2d of February. In the Ain-i-Akbari the plant is described as bearing its yellow flowers in spring, a fact at which Mr. Kerr (writing of Bengal) expresses some astonishment, since "it now flowers in the rainy and cold ; Roxburgh says it is sown in Bengal in May and June and flowers by August—that is to say, toward the end of the rainy sea- son. In the last agricultural report of Bengal it is stated that the crop is har- vested from 15th of August to 15th of September. It requires a light, but not necessarily rich, soil, and it can not be grown on clay. It is therefore sown on the high sandy lands, less suited for the more important crops. Wisset remarks that clay soils are injurious, but that on a rich soil the fiber is of a coarser quality than that grown on dry, high situations. The opinion prevails all over India that high cultivation is not necessary for sunn hemp. Of Kolaba it is said: '•The soil is roughly plowed twice and the seed sown ; In Bengal ••'the seeds are sown broadcast. It is necessary to have the plants grown thick, otherwise they become bushy and coarse and give
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