The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,257 pages of information about The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,257 pages of information about The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom.

    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.

    Improvements in sugar machinery and manufacture.

    Quantity of cane sugar annually produced and sent into
    the markets.

    Local consumption in India.

    Present European supply; demand according to the
    consumption in England.

    Estimated annual production throughout the world.

    Consumption in the principal European countries.

    Average annual consumption in the United Kingdom.

    Comparative amount of beet-root and cane sugar produced
    in the last four years. Gazette prices of sugar
    in the last ten years.

    Production of sugar in the United States.

    Production in Cuba.

    Production in the British West Indies.

    Production in Mauritius.

    Statistics of imports from the Mauritius.

    Production in the British East Indies.

    Production in Java.

    Production in the Philippines.

    Chemical distinction between cane and grape sugar. 
    Varieties of the sugar cane cultivated.

    Possibility of raising the cane from seed.

    Analysis of the cane, and of a sugar soil.

    Chemical examination of cane juice.

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