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.

  Bullhoof, yields a narcotic, 589

  Bunbury (Mr.) on Cape aloes, 632

  Butch wood, used to keep off ants, 181

  Butea frondosa, 507
    varieties of, 442
    tannin from, 494

  Butter of cacao, 11, 12
    obtained from the dolichos bean, 313

  Cabacinha, the Portuguese name for a purgative plant, 626

  Caballine aloes, 630

  Cacao beans or seeds, analysis of, 12
    age at which may be transplanted, 6
    expenses of a plantation, 33
    information respecting, 9
    plantation, enormous returns formerly obtained from, 34
    quantity consumed in the United Kingdom, 11
    total imports into the United Kingdom, 35
    total imports from America and the West Indies, 35
    trees, where indigenous, 33
    oppressive duties levied on, 34

  Cacomite, a species of Tigridia, 374

  Cacoon, oil from, 511

  Cadet’s analysis of barks, 495

  Caesalpinia, species of, 446
    Brasiliensis, 485

  Caesalpinia Coriari, 493
    oleospermum, 511

  Caffeine, analysis of, 80

  Cajeput oil, 566

  Caladium costatium, 377
    esculentum, 331
    sagittifolium, 334

  Calambak wood, 439

  Calandra oryza, 279

  Calcutta, exports of castor oil, 545

  Calidad, the best kind of Cuba tobacco, 613

  California, tea proposed to be cultivated in, 97

  Callistemon ellipticum, 505

  Calophyllum Inophyllum, 513

  Calumba plant, 638

  Calumbin, 638

  Calystegia sepium, 642

  Camassia esculenta, 376

  Camata, a variety of valonia, 508

  Camelina sativa, 509, 511, 564

  Camotes, a Spanish name for the sweet potato, 375

  Camaeladia ilicifolia, 628

  Campbell (Dr. A.), on the tea culture at Darjeeling, 116

  Camphor, on the collection of, 633
    obtained from the roots of the cinnamon, 389

  Cannabis indica, 643

  Camwood, 447

  Canada, production of maple sugar in, 206
    West, grain exports of, 251

  Canadian yellow root, 626

  Canary Isles, millet exported from, 306
    moss, 486
    seed, 311

  Candleberry myrtle, 540

  Candlewood, 539

  Candles made of cinnamon suet, 390

  Candle tree, 521, 538

  Cane sugar, composition of, 136, 155, 157

  Canella alba, 396

  Canna, species of, 355

  Canothus Americanus, used as tea, 80

  Caoutchouc, 539

  Capa, a term in Cuba for good tobacco, 614

  Cape aloes, manufacture of, 631
    weed, 486

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