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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. — John Shaqi

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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

Shipments from Jamaica.

    Comparison between the imports from the East and from
    the West.

    Total annual imports and consumption.

  GALANGALE ROOT.

  CARDAMOMS; plants from which derived.

    Grains of Paradise.

    Meleguetta, or Guinea pepper. PEPPER: description of
    the vine; range of the plant.

    Production of the World.

    The culture declining in Java.

    Extent of the production in Singapore.

    Exports from Ceylon.

    Its introduction into the Mauritius.

    Shipments from Singapore.

    Imports and consumption of the United Kingdom.

  CHILLIES AND CAYENNE PEPPER: varieties of Capsicum.

  PIMENTO: description of the tree; production of the
  spice limited to Jamaica.

    Imports and consumption.

  VANILLA: description of the plant.

    Its collection and preparation for the market.

    Commercial varieties.

    Tonquin beans.

  TURMERIC: sources of supply.

    Commercial uses.

    Value of the Curry stuffs of the East.

    Imports and consumption.

  GINSENG: description of--demand for in China, exports
  from America, and commercial value.

    Canary, Coriander, mustard and anise seeds.

  PUTCHUX, or COSTUS.

  LIGNUM ALOES, and fragrant woods.

SECTION IV.--DYES AND COLORING STUFFS AND TANNING SUBSTANCES

  Importance and value of these substances to our
    manufacturing interests.

    New specimens and materials recently produced.

    Miscellaneous notices of useful plants.

    Lana Dye.

    Prices of Dyewoods.

  Red SANDERS WOOD.

  FUSTIC.

  SAPPAN WOOD, Camwood and Barwood.

    Imports of Dyewoods.

  ARNATTO.

    Commercial kinds.

    Cultivation and manufacture.

    Imports, consumption and prices.

  CHAY-ROOT.

    Wood Dyes.

    Mangrove Bark.

  SUMACH.

    Statistics of imports and prices.

  SAFFLOWER.

    Gamboge.

    Common native dyes.

  INDIGO; plants which produce it.

    Commercial sources of supply.

    Cultivation in Central America, in Jamaica and the West
    Indies; once an important crop in the United States.

    The indigo plant a common weed in many parts of Africa.

    Cultivation in India.

    Classification of the dye-stuff.

    Localities best suited to its production.

    Process of Manufacture.

    Annual production in the East Indies; adaptation of
    Ceylon.

    Extent of the culture in Java; annual exports
    therefrom; imports and consumption.

  MADDER: extent of the demand for. Enormous profit of
    the cultivation; system of harvesting and manufacture.

    Large supplies received from France.

  MUNJEET, or Indian madder, deserving of more
    consideration.

  LOGWOOD, FUSTIC, Quercitron.

    Brazil Wood.

  LICHENS FOR DYEING.

    Henna.

  ORCHILLA WEED.

    Chemical examination of the coloring principles of the
    Lichens.

  BARKS FOR TANNING: cursory notice of a variety of
    suitable barks.

    Proportions of tannin yielded by different barks.

  CATECHU: definition of, and whence derived.

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