Algiers, tobacco culture in, 615

  Alizaine, 478

  Alkanet root, 442

  Allspice, the common name for pimento, 430

  Almond oil, 510, 533

  Aloes, statistics of exports from the Cape, 632
    varieties of, 628

  Alpinia Galanga, 419
    Cardamomum, 419
    racemosa, 414

  Alstraemeria pallida, 330

  Althea rosea, 442

  Amaranthus gangiticus, 434

  American arrowroot, 352
    flour, countries to which, shipped, 223

  Americans consume most coffee, 40

  Amboyna wood, 439

  Amomum, species of, 419
    Zingiber, 414

  Anacardium occidentale, 495, 521

  Analyses, various, of tobacco, 592-93

  Analysis of the coffee plant, 49
    ashes of the coffee tree, 43
    of catechu, 579
    of Havana tobacco, 591, 615
    of other varieties, 615
    of oil cake, 546
    of soils, 617
    of soils, not so requisite abroad, 7
    of the sugar cane, by Dr. Evans, 154
    of sugar soils in the East, 172

  Anethum graveolens, 376
    Sowa, seeds of, 434

  Angola weed, 486

  Aniseed, 437

  Antigua arrowroot, statistics of, 353
    cost of cultivating sugar, 189

  Ants, remedy for, 181

  Anchusa tinctoria, 442

  Andropogon, species of, 572

  Anileria, a manufactory for indigo, 460

  Apricot oil, 511, 536

  Apios, 355, 371

  Aquilaria, species of, 439

  Arghel leaves, 647

  Arachis hypogoea, 513

  Arenga saccharifera, the gomutus saccharifera of Rumphius, 136, 314

  Areometer, an instrument for testing oil, 532

  Arbor alba, 566

  Areca nuts, value of the exports from Ceylon, 579
    palm, 577

  Argemone Mexicana, 511, 521, 626

  Arnotto, 447

  Arpent, a French land measure, about one-seventh less than an acre, 251

  Arracan, exports of rice from, 297

  Arracacha esculenta, 355, 375

  Arrack, 556
    used to flavor tobacco, 621

  Arroba, a Spanish weight of 25 lbs., the fourth part of a quintal.

  Arrowroot, Benzon’s analysis of, 348
    culture and commerce of, 345
    made from the Palmyra shoots, 376
    starch of, 331, 334-35, 337

  Arsenic for steeping grain, poisonous effects from, 233

  Artocarpus incisa, 318, 330

  Arum colocasia, 364
    esculentum, 364
    Rumphii, 365

  Asafoetida, 633

  Asclepias curassavica, 625
    gigantea, 494
    tingens, 442