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Read Ebook: The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist Manufacturer Merchant and Consumer on the Cu by Simmonds P L Peter Lund
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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER
Objects of the work.
Prof. Solly on the demand for a practical book on raw materials.
Objects of the Society of Arts and Great Exhibition.
Necessity for an attention to the culture of the minor staples of the soil.
New objects of industry worthy the attention of Science.
Principal part of our homeward commerce composed of raw materials from the Vegetable Kingdom.
Mutual dependence of countries on Commerce for the supply of their wants.
System of arrangement of subjects adopted by the author.
Many articles of commerce omitted for want of space.
Those of tropical and sub-tropical regions chiefly discussed.
Hints for the cultivator. Division of zones, and countries lying within each, with their range of temperature.
Table of climate; duration and production of the principal cultivated plants.
Varieties and description of the tree.
Mode of cultivation in the Colombian Republics.
Enemies of the tree.
Expenses of a plantation in Jamaica.
Cultivation in Trinidad and St. Lucia.
Statistics and consumption.
Home consumption and revenue of coffee.
Chicory largely substituted for; history of the fiscal changes.
Continental demand.
Present produce and consumption in various countries.
Cultivation in Mocha.
Cultivation in India; in Ceylon.
Exports from that island.
Manures suitable for the tree.
Peeling, pulping, and winnowing.
Improved machinery.
New use for coffee leaves.
Culture in Java.
Production of America and the West Indies; Venezuela.
Statistics of the Brazils.
Shipments of various countries to the United States.
Comparative consumption by different nations.
Cultivation in Jamaica; Trinidad; British Guiana; Cuba; decline of production in this island.
Statistics of exports.
Preparation of coffee leaves for infusion according to Dr. Gardner's patent.
Dr. Hooker's opinion thereon.
Immense consumption of.
Liebig's analysis of.
Varieties of the plant.
Imports of tea for a series of years.
Alterations in the duties.
Statistics of import and consumption, revenue and prices.
Value and extent of the tea exported from China; first cost at the ports; enormous prices paid for superior teas.
Total outlay for tea.
Consumption of tea in China.
Export to various countries.
Total production.
Consumption per head in England; not properly within the reach of the poorer classes.
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