Excerpt from Report on the Caoutchouc of Commerce: Being Information on the Plants Yielding It, Their Geographical, Distribution, Climatic Conditions, and the Possibility, of Their Cultivation and Acclimatization in IndiaThe numberless uses to which Caoutchouc is now applied has placed it in the front rank of vegetable products, rendering a large and constant supply imperative, and this necessity early led me to the consideration of the sources of supply, and how such supplies could be increased and insured.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.