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" Oadal tree is very common, and the rope is made most readily ; the bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers of bark,... "
Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants - Page 125
edited by - 1849
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Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, Volume 1

Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1849 - 420 pages
...India, and the rope is readily made; for " the bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest...the bark, whilst the outer yields coarse ropes. The rope is very strong and lasting : wet does it little injury. It is the common rope used by all elephant-hunters...
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Hooker's Journal of Botany and Kew Garden Miscellany, Volume 1

Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1849 - 520 pages
...prepared, are equal in strength to the best Coir. The tree is very common in Eastern India, and the rope is readily made ; for " the bark, or rather all the layers,...can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and Jlne pliable ropes may be obtained from the inner layers of...
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The Fibrous Plants of India Fitted for Cordage, Clothing, and Paper: With an ...

John Forbes Royle - Agriculture - 1855 - 446 pages
...common, and the rope is made most readily ; the bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers of bark, whilst the outer yield coarse ropes. The rope is very strong and...
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The Fibrous Plants of India Fitted for Cordage, Clothing, and Paper: With an ...

John Forbes Royle - Agriculture - 1855 - 444 pages
...following notice in the year 1 8 17 : " The Oadal tree is very common, and the rope is made most readily ; the bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers of bark,...
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The Timber Trees, Timber and Fancy Woods, as Also, the Forests, of India and ...

Edward Balfour - Timber - 1870 - 404 pages
...Kumaon. It has a straight trunk with a smooth bark. The wood is not kuown and is likely to be worthless. The bark or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers of bark,...
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Cyclopędia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial ..., Volume 4

Edward Balfour - India - 1873 - 1038 pages
...natives of the eastern frontier of Bengal, to bind wild elephants with. The rope is made most readily ; the bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers of bark,...
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Cyclopędia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial ..., Volume 4

Edward Balfour - East Asia - 1873 - 1030 pages
...with. The rope is made most readily ; the bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers of bark, whilst the outer yield coarse ropes. The rope is very strong and...
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Parliamentary Papers, Volume 48

Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - Bills, Legislative - 1874 - 526 pages
...trunk " with a smooth bark ; leaves palmated, five or seven lobed. The bark can be " stripped off from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, " and fine pliable ropes may be made from the inner layers, whilst the outer " yield coarser ropes. The rope is very strong and very...
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Commissioner of Agriculture

Washington Govenment Printing Officcce - 1880 - 762 pages
...India, and the rope is made most readily. The bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine, pliable rope is made from the inner layers, while the outer one» yield a coarser rope, which is strong and...
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Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture for the Year ...

United States. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1880 - 778 pages
...India, and the rope is made most readily. The bark, or rather all the layers, can be stripped from the bottom to the top of the tree with the greatest facility, and fine, pliable rope is made from the inner layers, while the outer ones yield a coarser rope, which is strong and...
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