Description: A pictorial map from 1906 illustrating the principle plants found in various regions of Asia. The map shows tea in the east and southeast of Asia and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), rice in the wet lands of the southeast, cotton, wheat, millet, and sugarcane in the south and southwest, coffee, cinnamon and other spices from Java, dates, figs, and coffee around the Red Sea, grains and grasses in the steppes, and timber from the forestlands of the north.
Place Names: A Complete Map of Asia, China, India, Phillipines, Japa
ISO Topic Categories: biota
Keywords: Plants of Asia, Plants found in Asia, kAgriculture, biota, Unknown, 1906
Source: Alexis Everett Frye, Frye's First Steps in Geography (Boston, MA: Ginn and Company, 1906) 109
Map Credit: Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman |
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