Bengal, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
    indigo, 464
    introduction of the coffee tree into, 40
    production of indigo in, 475
    production of opium in, 580
    rice, 296

  Bennet on Ceylon, 316

  Bennett (Dr.), description of gambier, 500

  Berar, edible root of, 377

  Berberry, a dye stuff, 442

  Berbice, exports of coffee from, 73

  Bergamot, essence of, 566

  Berger’s process of making rice starch, 344

  Bermuda arrowroot, statistics of, 353
    mode of cultivating arrowroot, 346

  Berry wax, 540

  Betel leaf, 577

  Bhoe Moong, the Indian name for the ground nut, 515

  Bhull rice lands, 293

  Biggah, distinction between this land measure, 471

  Bignonia Chica, 444

  Bihai, 320

  Bitter cassava, 331

  Bixa orellana, 447

  Black ginger, 415
    pepper, statistics of, 428
    tea, imports of the last fifteen years, 82
    mode of manufacturing, 112

  Blood tree, 625

  Bollman (Prof.), on the potato rot, 359

  Bolitus used as food, 377

  Bonynge (Mr. F.) promotes tea culture in America, 97

  Borassus gomutus, 315

  Borneo, pepper produced in, 422

  Bourbon, cacao grown in, 36
    produce of rice in, 293

  Bousa, an African beer, 308

  Boussingault’s analysis of wheat, 244

  Boyams, food plant, 377

  Bran, analysis of, 231

  Brassica oleracea, oil from the seed, 539

  Brazilian arrowroot, 330, 367, 369

  Brazil, exports of coffee to America, 63
    cost of producing sugar in, 189
    culture of ginger, 418
    production of coffee in, 40, 41, 63
    introduction of the tea plant, 128
    statistics of sugar production, 182
    tobacco export from, 594
    wood, 485

  Bread fruit, 318, 330
    made from millet, 306
    nut of Jamaica, 319
    stuffs of commerce, 217

  Brick tea of Thibet, 92

  British Guiana, coffee produced in, 73
    West Indies, decline of coffee culture in, 40, 63, 67
    exports of coffee from, 73

  Brood-boon, 319

  Bromelia Pinguin, fruit of, used for soap, 574

  Broom corn, 307, 308
    sedge, 308

  Brosimum Alicastrum, edible nuts of, 319

  Broussonitia tinctoria, 485

  Brown bread, its wholesomeness, 230

  Bruce, (Mr. C.A.) on the manufacture of tea in Assam, 126

  Buchanania latifolia, 494, 521

  Buckwheat, average weight of crop in New Brunswick, 253
    oil from, 510
    culture of, 259
    analysis of, 260

  Buck yam, 333, 335, 362