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.

    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.

  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.

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