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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

+-----------+---------+--------+------+------+--------
  Cotton          {| 630       |81.17    |6½  mth |28,900|3½    |½ lb.
  (_Gossypium_)   {|1077       |46.00    |7    "  |      |      |nett
                  {|1415       |40.61    |7½"     |      |      |per
                  {|           |34.61    |9    "  |      |      |plant
                   +-----------+---------+--------+------+------+--------
  Coffee          {| 230       |47       |24 mths | 5,300|  45  |1½
  (_Coffea_       {| 630       |46       |25  "   |      |      |lb.
  _Arabica_)      {|1077to 2250|37.80 to |28  "   |      |      |per
                  {|2453       |39.60    |36  "   |      |      |tree
                  {|           |33.30    |        |      |      |
                   +-----------+---------+--------+------+------+--------
  Sugar cane      {| 630       |84.17    |11 mths.|28,900|   5  |10 percnt
  (_Saccharum_    {|1080       |46.00    |12  "   |      |      |sugar
  _officinarum_)  {|           |41.40    |14  "   |      |      |upon the
                  {|           |         |        |      |      |weight
                  {|           |         |        |      |      |of the
                  {|           |         |        |      |      |raw cane
                   +-----------+---------+--------+------+------+--------
  Indigo          {|  90       |48.60    |2½   "  |57,800|  1½  |70 plants
  (_Indigofera_   {| 630       |46.00    |3    "  |      |      |produce
  _tinctoria_)    {|1077       |40.61    |3½   "  |      |      |1 lb.
                  {|           |         |        |      |      |coloring
                  {|           |         |        |      |      |matter
                   +-----------+---------+--------+------+------+--------
  Potato          {|1080       |38.70    |140 days|116,600      |4½
  (_Solanum_      {|1980       |33.30    |165  "  |      |Annual|lb each
  _tuberosum_)    {|2700       |27.00    |210  "  |      |      |plant
                   +-----------+---------+--------+------+------+--------
  Wheat           {| 567       |42.30    | 80  "  |57,800|Annual|37 for
  (_Triticum_     {|1170       |38.70    |100  "  |      |      |every
  _æstivum_)      {|2520       |32.99    |120  "  |      |      |seed
                  {|           |         |        |      |      |planted
  -----------------+-----------+---------+--------+------+------+--------

The plantain bears at 1,529 yards, in a temperature of 61 deg.
Fahrenheit, and requires fifteen months, but its cultivation is of
little benefit in so high a latitude. It is the same with the cassava
root. The cane at 1,160 altitude, in a temperature of 66 deg., gives
no sugar; and indigo at 1,620 affords no coloring matter.




SECTION I.

DRIED LEAVES, SEEDS, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES USED IN THE PREPARATION OF
POPULAR DIETETIC BEVERAGES.

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