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.
Simmonds, P. L. (Peter Lund)
Botany, Economic
GAMBIER PLANT: cultivation in Singapore; returns from a
plantation.
Different qualities of extract and mode of obtaining
it.
Places of manufacture; average produce.
Terra Japonica, a misnomer. Cutch, another name for
Catechu.
Statistics of imports and consumption; the amount and
value of Gambier from Singapore.
DIVI-DIVI: description of.
CORK TREE BARK.
MIMOSA BARK.
Valuable native barks of New Zealand.
Mangrove bark.
MYROBALANS.
Kino: definition of; sources from whence obtained.
VALONIA: statistics of, consumption and prices.
SECTION V.--OLEAGINOUS PLANTS AND THOSE YIELDING FIXED OR
ESSENTIAL OILS
General Remarks.
Extensive demand for Oils.
Proportion of oil furnished by various seeds.
Richness of Indian seeds in oil.
RAPE OIL.
Domba Oil.
The EARTH or GROUND NUT, its extensive cultivation for
food and oil.
Tea oil.
Tobacco seed oil.
Poppy oil.
Tallicoonah oil.
Carap oil.
Macaw oil. _Madia sativa_.
Cocum oil.
Candle Tree.
Cinnamon Suet.
Croton oil.
Oil of Ben.
PALM OIL: progress of the African trade.
Imports into Liverpool.
Quantity retained for home consumption.
Statistics of; imports of the four principal vegetable
oils.
OLIVE OIL: description of the tree and its varieties;
its cultivation attempted in the United States.
Preservation of the fruit.
Expression of the oil.
Range of prices.
Frequently adulterated with cheaper oils.
Annual imports and consumption.
ALMOND OIL.
SESAME, or TEEL Oil.
Various species cultivated in the East.
Large exports of the seed from India; native oil mills;
processes of expression and manufacture.
Sunflower oil.
Margose, or Neem oil.
Illepe oil.
Vegetable butter. Candle nut tree.
Colza oil.
VEGETABLE WAX.
The Candleberry myrtle.
The CASTOR OIL PLANT: manufacture of the oil in the
East and West Indies.
Extent of the imports annually.
The oil-cake for manure.
Kanari oil.
The COCO-NUT PALM: description of the tree; its various
and important uses.
Varieties of this palm met with.
Wide range of the plant.
Directions for its culture; profits derived from
plantations; great attention paid to them in Ceylon.
Commercial value of its products.
Statistics of culture in Pinang.
Natural enemies of the tree.
Copperah and Poonac.
Statistical returns connected with its products in
Ceylon.
Imports and consumption of coco-nut oil.
Comparison of the consumption of the chief vegetable
oils of commerce.
The value and uses of oil-cake for cattle-feeding.
VOLATILE, OR ESSENTIAL OILS: description of the most
important.
Oil of peppermint.
Process of obtaining the perfumed oils.
Cultivation of Roses in the East and preparation of
Attar. Lemon-grass oil.
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