Excerpt from Select Extra-Tropical Plants: Readily Elegible for Industrial Culture or Naturalisation, With Indications of Their Native Countries and Some of Their Uses IN the volumes, issued by the Victorian acclimation-society from 1871 to 1878, five contributions have appeared concerning such industrial plants, as are available for culture in extra-tropical countries or in high mountain-regions within the tropics. These writings were mainly offered with a view of promoting the intro duction and diffusion of the very many kinds of utilitarian plants, which may be extensively reared in the forests, fields, pastures and gardens of temperate geographic latitudes. But the work thus originated became accessible merely to the members of the Society, while frequent calls arose for these or some similar data, not only throughout the Australian communities, but also abroad. The whole was therefore re-arranged and largely supplemented, first for re-issue in Victoria and later also for publication in India, there under the auspices of the Central Government at Calcutta. Subsequently the work was likewise honoured by being reprinted, with numerous addi tions, for the use of New South Wales and at nearly the same time it went through a German translation, by Dr. Goeze, in Herr Th. Fischer's publishing establishment of Cassel. In 1884 it appeared, revised and still further augmented, more particularly for North American use, through the generous interest of one of the most enterprising scientific publishers in the United States, Mr. George Davis of Detroit. Four Victorian editions having become exhausted, the present one is offered new, again further enlarged by such notes, as could be added recently. As stated in the preface to the original essays, they did not claim completeness, either as a specific index to or as a series of notes on the respective rural or technologic applicability of the plants enumerated. But what these writings may perhaps aspire to, is to bring together some condensed data in popular language on all the principal economic plants, hitherto known to prosper beyond the equinoctial zone. Information of this kind is widely scattered, and often only accessible through voluminous and. 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.