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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

Name: The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom: Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
Author: Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)

Botany, Economic

Composition of wheat and wheat-flour, and the modes of
    determining their nutritive value.

    Rotation of crops in connexion with wheat culture.

    Production and consumption of the United Kingdom.

    Statistics of other countries.

    Barley, Oats, Rye, Buckwheat, Maize: Indian corn and
    meal imported.

    Crop and exports of United States.

    System of culture.

    Rice: Statistics of production and culture in Carolina.

    The Bhull rice lands of Lower Scinde.

    Rice in Kashmir; exports from Arracan.

    Millet.

    Broom Corn.

    Chenopodium Quinoa.

    Fundi or Fundungi.

    Pulse.

    The Sago Palms.

    Manufacture and extent of the trade in Singapore.

    The bread-fruit tree.

    Kafir bread.

  The PLANTAIN and BANANA; various products of these
    palms.

  STARCH-PRODUCING PLANTS investigated.

    Characters of starch from different plants.

    Tenacity and clearness of jellies; per centage of
    starch yielded, and produce of plant per acre; their
    meal as articles of export.

    Indian Corn starch.

    Rice starch.

  ARROWROOT: East and West India, culture and statistics
  of.

  ROOT CROPS: Potatoes, Yams, Cocos, or Eddoes, Sweet
  Potatoes, Cassava or Manioc.

  NEW TUBEROUS PLANTS recommended as substitutes for the
  potato.

  MISCELLANEOUS FOOD PLANTS.

  LICHENS and MOSSES.

  FERNS.

SECTION III.--SPICES, AROMATIC CONDIMENTS, AND FRAGRANT WOODS.

  CINNAMON.

    Limited range of the culture in Ceylon.

    Analysis of the soil most favorable to the tree.

    Peeling.

    Various kinds of bark; commercial classification,
    distinguishing properties of good cinnamon; suitability
    of the Straits Settlement for cinnamon plantations; oil
    of cinnamon; statistics and exports from Ceylon, and
    prices realised; reduction of the duty; extent of land
    under cultivation with the tree; progress of the
    culture in Java; exports thence to Holland.

  CASSIA BARK: species from whence derived; imports,
  consumption and prices.

    Cassia Buds.

    Cassia Oil.

  CANELLA ALBA.

  CASCARILLA BARK.

  CLOVES: description and varieties of the tree.

    Produce in Java.

    Introduction into the West Indies.

    Progress of the culture in Pinang and Singapore.

    The Clove plantations of Zanzibar. Imports and
    consumption of the United Kingdom.

  The NUTMEG: Botanical description.

    Dr. Oxley's account of the cultivation and management
    of a plantation; enemies of the tree.

    Produce and returns.

    Preparation of the nuts for market.

    Statistics of culture in the Straits Settlements.

    Memorandum on the duties on nutmegs.

    Exports of nutmegs from Singapore and Java.

    Imports into the United Kingdom, and consumption of
    wild and cultivated nutmegs and mace.

  GINGER: description and consumption of.

    Commercial distinction between black and white ginger.
    East and West India ginger, directions for cultivation.

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