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.

  Guayaquil, large exports of cocoa from, 13

  Guazuma ulmifolia, 164

  Guillemen’s (M.) report on the tea plantations of Brazil, 128

  Guiana, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189

  Guinea pepper, 429
    grains, 420
    yam, 331, 334, 335, 337, 362
    corn, 306

  Gums used by the dyers, 453

  Gum tree of Australia, 494

  Gun stock tree, 164

  Gunnera scabra, 495

  Gunny bags, rough canvas bags, 392

  Guntang, an Indian dry measure of rather more than 15 pounds, 297

  Guaco, or snake plant, 627
    as a fertilizer, 278

  Gynerium saccharoides, 136

  Gyrophora murina, 486

  Hamatoxylon campechianum, 484

  Hamilton (Dr.), on oil of ben, 523
    notices by, 617

  Havana tobacco, classification of, 613
    exports of tobacco from, 614
    shipments of sugar from, 147

  Hayti, exports of tobacco, 615
    exports of ginger, 418
    coffee from, 67
    indigo from, 460

  Hazel nut, oil from, 510

  Hebradendron Cambogoides, 451, 639

  Heather, dye from, 453

  Hectare, a French land measure, equal to about 21/2 acres, 204

  Hectolitre, a French measure 1921/4 bushel’s

  Helot’s lichen test, 452

  Herreria sarsaparilla, 646

  Heliconia humilis, 320

  Hemlock tree, bark of, 494

  Hemp seed oil, 509

  Henna, a dye stuff, 486

  Hepatic aloes, 630

  Herring’s palm kernel oil, 525

  Hernandez (Mr.) on Cuba tobacco, 608

  Heuchera Americana, 494

  Hibiscus rosa sinensis, 494

  Hingalee, the best Bengal tobacco, 617

  Hino bark, 606

  Hogs, large consumption of maize by, 271

  Holcomb (Mr.) on the wheat crop of America, 245

  Holcus avenaceus, 307
    spicatus, 366
    saccharatum, 306

  Holland, tea sent to, 86

  Honduras, export of indigo from, 460

  Hooker (Dr.) on brick tea, 92

  Hops, cascarilla bark used to adulterate, 397

  Horse gram, 312

  Hungary, production of beet sugar in, 197

  Hura crepitans, 512, 626

  Husking rice, 290

  Hydraulic press for coco nut oil, 557
    press, 329

  Hydrastica canadensis, 625

  Hymenoea Courbaril, 313

  Hyperanthera Moringa, 523

  Hypericum, species of, furnishes gamboge, 454, 640

  Iceland moss, 343, 379

  Illepe oil, 537, 511

  Ilex Paraguayensis, indigenous to Brazil, 130
    description of, 133

  Illicum anisatum, 438

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