Vanaspati: Plants and Plant-Life as in Indian Treatises and Traditions c6.t3.112

c6.t3.112

The duty of the Superintendent was a very extensive one. He was to "collect the seeds of all kinds of grains, flowers, fruits, vegetables, bulbous roots, roots, creepers, fibre-producing plants, and cotton." He was to see that the cultivation of the crown land should suffer on no account and enforce laws governing the proper cultivation of the soil.