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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

Table of climate; duration and production of the
  principal cultivated plants.

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

  _Cacao_ or _Cocoa_.

    Varieties and description of the tree.

    Mode of cultivation in the Colombian Republics.

    Enemies of the tree.

    Expenses of a plantation in Jamaica.

    Cultivation in Trinidad and St. Lucia.

    Statistics and consumption.

  _Coffee_.

    Home consumption and revenue of coffee.

    Chicory largely substituted for; history of the fiscal
    changes.

    Continental demand.

    Present produce and consumption in various countries.

    Cultivation in Mocha.

    Cultivation in India; in Ceylon.

    Exports from that island.

    Manures suitable for the tree.

    Peeling, pulping, and winnowing.

    Improved machinery.

    New use for coffee leaves.

    Culture in Java.

    Production of America and the West Indies; Venezuela.

    Statistics of the Brazils.

    Shipments of various countries to the United States.

    Comparative consumption by different nations.

    Cultivation in Jamaica; Trinidad; British Guiana; Cuba;
    decline of production in this island.

    Statistics of exports.

    Preparation of coffee leaves for infusion according to
    Dr. Gardner's patent.

    Dr. Hooker's opinion thereon.

  _Tea_.

    Immense consumption of.

    Liebig's analysis of.

    Varieties of the plant.

    Imports of tea for a series of years.

    Alterations in the duties.

    Statistics of import and consumption, revenue and
    prices.

    Value and extent of the tea exported from China; first
    cost at the ports; enormous prices paid for superior
    teas.

    Total outlay for tea.

    Consumption of tea in China.

    Export to various countries.

    Total production.

    Consumption per head in England; not properly within
    the reach of the poorer classes.

    China could furnish any quantity.

    Mr. Travers on the tea duties.

    Brick tea of Thibet.

    Tea annually imported into the United States;
    proportion of green to black.

    Range of the plant.

    Countries in which its culture has been attempted.

    Its progress in America.

    The Assam Company and its plantations.

    Extension of tea culture by the East India Co.

    Mr. Fortune's travels in the tea districts of China.

    Instructions and details as to soil, management and
    manufacture, by Dr. Jameson and Mr. Fortune.

    Dr. Campbell's notes.

    Mr. A. Macfarlane's Report.

    The East India tea plantations in the North-West
    Provinces.

    Experimental cultivation of the tea plant in Brazil; M.
    Geullemin's report thereon.

    Paraguay Tea: Mr. Robertson's description of the
    collection and manufacture.

  _Sugar_.

    Plants from which it is usually obtained.

    The sugar cane; its range of cultivation.

    Production in our colonies.

    Consumption in the last ten years.

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