Leaves - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 34834 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 188.00 PANDANACEAE Pandanus odorifer | Entry Book Number | 148.1875 | |
| Artefact Name | Leaves | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | Not defined | TDWG Region | Not defined | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves | Geography Description | |||
| Uses | LeavesUse: MATERIALS - Fibres User: Man | TDWG use | MATERIALS - Fibres | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | The Ford Works Co, Sunderland | Donor No | |||
| Donor Date | Donor Notes | Routledge Thosx0Dx0A | |||
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| Notes: | Opuscular source: The Ford Works Co Ltd, near Sunderland 12 Nov.1875 to WT Thistleton Dyer My Dear Sir, Many thanks for the P.tenax which I have received this day. By ?? post I send you a leaf of the Pandanus, boiled and the base portion dissected by wh, ich you will see that the ?? fibrous portion heart but a very small proportion to the bulk of the leaf and that being moreover cemented together, by a glutinous membrane or ?? would still diminish the yield - the silicious coating on outer leaf I do not t, hink would be available. However I shall look more into the matter by ?? The stem I think will not do at all. I have a man here who is well acquainted with it in South Africa. He says it grows with extreme rapidity there. I have an interesting letter f, rom WHR Robertson of Sydapet Government Farm, Madras. He says their bamboo is the B.arundinacea - ?? - it is grown from seed, never ?? from cuttings, but from my suggestions he has adopted that system and adds 'the growth so far has been most satisfactory, ' when generally known will lead to much more intensive cultivation. He is also commencing planting under irrigation. I have just received from Chatsworth some young stems B.arundinacea - B.tigsa (?) and B.glauca - all of which I find yield me excellent, results, their B.arundinacea however is not spiny or thorny - perhaps because so young. Robertson however remarks in his letter, that the B.arundinacea throws out ??? when only 3 to 4 feet high armed with sharp spines - which the quantity remarks would p, uzzle the half naked coolies, but he proposes introducing other smoother varieties, Yours faithfully T Routledge. Clanbeugh, Sunderland 4 Nov.1875 - WT Thistleton Dyer, My Dear Sir, Your samples (Pandanus) this moment to hand, the stem most certainly was, not answer, it is possible the leaves will produce some fibre, but the yield will be very small. I will let you know the result when tested, but I have seen enough to satisfy me this plant will never come in to a paper making material. ?? therefore I ma, y inform W Smith not to keep any more for me. I have another enquiry ? Phormium tenax to be ?? in New Zealand for paper stock if you could let me have a bundle of these leaves I shall feel obliged. My case left here 28th in our paper van, delayed by some, reason but our agent writes he has received it & sent it on, I therefore hope it is now to hand. Yours faithfully T.Routledge PS I have just received from Calcutta Botanic Gardens 2 ?? cases of Bamboo, unfortunately the grass in both cases broken and I f, ear all the plants dead or nearly so, most provoking. If inconvenient to spare the Phormium leaves do not trouble, as I can get some elsewhere, but if sending should be glad of a root with same for planting. | ||||