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A

Albrus precatorius_, 643
Acacia bark, 493
Catechu_, 495, 577
dealbata_, 505
Acer saccharinum_, 205
Acre, coffee trees to the, 69
Achira plant, 355
Achote, a name for arnotto, 447
Acrocomia fusiformis_, 519
Adeps Myristica_, 402
Adme cyperus_, 626
Adenanthera Pavonina_, 378
Adansonia digitata_, 378
African arrowroot, 353
lard, 525
purple millet, 307
Africa, pepper grown in, 422
tobacco culture in, 615
Agar-Agar moss, 378, 379
Agi or Guinea pepper, 429
Agave Americana--a substitute for soap, 574
Agaiti oil, 520
Agricultural wealth of tropical regions, 2
Aipi, 376
Akyab, exports of rice from, 297
Aleurites triloba_, 521, 538
Alexandrian senna, 648
Algaroba beans, 313
bark, 503
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
Alstræmeria 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
Assamee, an Indian name for the ryot or cultivator, 467
Assam, introduction of tea culture, 94
tea sales, 98
Company, origin of, 98
manufacture of tea in, 126
Assaroo, rain sowing, 468
Astoria theiformis_, used as tea at Santa Fe, 80
Attap leaf for thatching, 405, 559
Attar of roses, 570
Aucklandia, 438
Auracaria Bidwillii_, 377
Australia, consumption of tea in, 87, 88
sugar cultivation recommended, 139
Austria production of beet-root sugar in, 197, 200
Avicenna tomentosa_, 444
Avocado seed yields a dye stuff, 444
Awl tree, 443

B

Babool wood, 493
Bahu, a land measure in Java, equal to 71 acres.
Bajree, the Indian name for Holcus Spicatus_, 306
Bales of Cuba tobacco, size of, 613
Balfour (Prof.) on the starch in potatoes, 330
Ball's account of the cultivation, &c., of tea, 103
Banana, starch in, 331
Baptista tinctoria_, 453
Barbacue, a platform for coffee drying, 69
Baphia nitida_, 447
Barbados arrowroot, 337, 353
Barcelona, exports of cacao from, 13
Bark of the larch, its utility, 376
Barks for tanning, 492
Barley, history and consumption of, 255
Barrel of rice weighs 600 lbs. net, 291
Barus camphor, 634
Barwood, 445, 447
Basket of rice, a measure equal to 55½ lbs., English,
Bassia butyracea_, 136, 512
Batatas edulis_, 330, 331, 357
Bauhinia variegata_, 492
Bayley (Mr.), on consumption of tea in the manufacturing districts
Bay rush or tapioca, 376
Beans, analysis of, 264
Bearing time of different plants, 9
Beck (Prof.) on various wheats, 222
Beet root sugar produced on the Continent, 144
Beet, varieties of the root, 191
Belgians, large consumers of coffee, 40
Belgium, production of beet root sugar in, 200
Benares, production of indigo in, 475
Ben, oil of, 523
Bencoolen, pepper grown in, 423
Bengal, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
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
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
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
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
Bread fruit, 318, 330
Brick tea of Thibet, 92
British Guiana, coffee produced in, 73
Brood-boon, 319
Bromelia Pinguin, fruit of, used for soap, 574
Broom corn, 307, 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
Buck yam, 333, 335, 362
Bullhoof, yields a narcotic, 589
Bunbury (Mr.) on Cape aloes, 632
Butch wood, used to keep off ants, 181
Butea frondosa_, 507
Butter of cacao, 11, 12

C

Cabacinha_, the Portuguese name for a purgative plant, 626
Caballine aloes, 630
Cacao beans or seeds, analysis of, 12
Cacomite, a species of Tigridia, 374
Cacoon, oil from, 511
Cadet's analysis of barks, 495
Cæsalpinia_, species of, 446
Cæsalpinia Coriari_, 493
Caffeine, analysis of, 80
Cajeput oil, 566
Caladium costatium_, 377
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
Camæladia ilicifolia_, 628
Campbell (Dr. A.), on the tea culture at Darjeeling, 116
Camphor, on the collection of, 633
Cannabis indica_, 643
Camwood, 447
Canada, production of maple sugar in, 206
Canadian yellow root, 626
Canary Isles, millet exported from, 306
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
Capsicum, 428
Carapa_, species yielding oil, 518
Caracas, large produce of cacao in, 13
Caraveru, a red pigment, 444
Carraway seed oil, 437, 566
Cardomoms, bastard, 419
Carduus Virginianus_, 376
Carob bean, 312, 313
Carolina rice, shipments of, 285
Carrageen, 379
Carrots, average weight per bushel in New Brunswick, 253
Carthamus tinctoria_, 450
Caruto, a name for the Lana dye, 444
Carver's treatise on tobacco culture, 607
Carum carui_, 566
Caryophyllus aromaticus_, 397
Caryota urens_, 314
Cascarilla bark, 396
Cashew bark, 495
Cassareep, an antiseptic, 339, 343, 369
Cassava cakes, 342
Cassia, a rival to cinnamon, 391
Castor oil, 510, 511, 527, 536, 542, 563
Catechu or Cutch, 579
Cattle, consumption of Indian corn by, 271
Catty, a Chinese weight, 400
Cayenne, nutmeg introduced, 412
Celastrus paniculatus_, 521
Celebes, coffee grown in, 62
Centrifugal machine for sugar, 140
Cephælis Ipecacuanhæ_, 641
Ceratonia siliqua_, 312, 313
Cereal grasses, 216
Ceroxyion andicola_, 541
Cersium virginianum_, 376
Cetraria islandica_, 343, 379
Ceylon arrowroot, 353
Ceylon, exports of castor oil from, 545
Chay root, 449, 478
Chamarops Palmetto_, 495
Chandu, the prepared extract of the opium, 585
Chenopodium quinon_, 310
Cherrots, Manilla, 619
Chesnuts, consumed in France, 361
Chest of opium, about 140 lbs., 58
Chick pea, 312
Chicory, extensive consumption of, 37
Chillies, growth of, 428
Chimo, powdered potatoes, 361
China, population of, 86
Chinese arrowroot, 352
Chironia sapinda_, 521
Chloranthus_, flowers used to flavor tea, 85
Chocolate nuts, 11
Christison (Prof.), analysis of gamboge, 640
Chiretta, 641
Chrysoptranic acid, 488
Cibotium Billardieri_, 380
Cigars, consumption of, 596
Cinchona bark, 635
Cinnamon, 382
Citronella oil, 565, 573
Clagett and Co.'s (Messrs.) tobacco circulars, 601
Clarifying cane juice, 155
Clark, (Mr.) on a new variety of tobacco, 613
Classification and arrangement adopted in the work, 5
Claytonia acutiflora_, 371
Clerihew's coffee apparatus, 52
Climate suited for various plants, 9
Clove bark, 383
Cloves, 397
Cobres a first quality of indigo, 456
Coca plant, 576
Cocculus indicus_, 576
Cochin China, coco nut oil exported from, 556
Cochineal, value of the dye stuff, 440
Cocoa, see Cacao, 9
Cocos nucifera_, 547
Cocum oil, 521
Coffee, adulteration of, and substitutes for, 37
Coimbatore, culture of tobacco in, 618.
Coir, Coco nut, 551, 552, 555, 556.
Colman (Mr.), on grain production, 219
Colocasia_, varieties of cultivated, 364
Colocynth_, 638
Colombo root, 638
Coloring principles of the lichens, 487
Colza oil, 510, 513, 539
Conium Arracacha_, 375
Connecticut, culture of tobacco in, 606
Consumption of rhubarb, 645
Convolvulus Jalapa_, 641
Conquin tay, plantain meal, 324
Constantinople opium, 585
Consumption of arrowroot, 354
Convolvulus batatas_, 333, 334, 356
Coolies employed in Mauritius, 150
Copey, a Cuba dye wood, 485
Copperah, 536, 549, 556, 560, 661
Corakan flour, 304
Coriander seed, 437
Coriaria myrtifolia_, 493
Cork tree bark, 504
Corn, the common name for maize in America, 270
Cortes, a description of indigo, 456
Corypha umbraculifera_, 316
Costus Arabicus_, 438
Costa Rica, production of coffee in, 41, 64
Cotton, information respecting, 9
Courida bark, 495
Cow-itch, 625
Crane potato, 372
Crawfurd (Mr. J.), estimate of pepper produce, 422
Croix lachryma_, 304
Crop hogshead of tobacco, weight of, 605
Croton Cascarilla_, 396
Cuba, coffee plantations in, 77
Cubebs, medicinal, 639
Cucumber seed oil, 512
Cucumis Colocynthus_, 638
Cudbear, imports of, 486
Culilaban bark, 383
Curcuma longa_, 419
Curry stuff, imports into Ceylon, 434
Cush, an Indian name for millet, 306
Cutch, the Indian name for catechu, or gambier, 600
Cuyupa, an Indian tuber, 374
Cycas circinalis_, 314
Cynamchum_ leaves, 649
Cynosurus corocanus_, 306
Cytisus Cajan_, 304

D

Dacrydium cupressinum_, 505
Dadap, a prop for the pepper, 425, 42
Datisca cannabina_, 442
Davis' (Dr.), analysis of maize, 265
Day's analysis of barks, 495
Demerara, exports of coffee from, 73
Dholl, the Indian name for varieties of Cajanus_, 312
Dhak tree, bark of, 507
Dhurra, the Egyptian name for millet, 306
Dicypellium caryophyllatum_, 384
Didynamia gymosperma_, 520
Dietetic articles used for the preparation of popular beverages, 11
Dillock, a preparation with cayenne, 429
Dioscorea aculeata_, 334, 362
Diospyros glutinosa_, 494
Dipterix odorata_, 434
Dipterocarpus_, oil from, 511
Divi-divi, 503
Division of seasons in the tropics, 6
Dodder cake, 564
Dogwood, bark of, 627
Dolichos biflorus_, varieties of, 312
Domba oil, 513
Dominica, exports of coffee from, 73
Dracæna terminalis_, 355
Drimys bark, 636
Dryobalanops, species furnishing camphor, 634
Dubranfaut's process of sugar making, 197, 201
Dunsterville (Mr.), on Cape aloes, 631
Duquesne (M.), process of making sugar from beet, 202
Duration of various plants, 9
Dutch pound, lighter than the English avoirdupoise pound; 100 Dutch pounds equal to 101 and 1-5th lbs.
Dutch West Indies, production of coffee in, 41
Duty, large, levied on tobacco, 598
Dye stuffs, various, 440
Dye woods, 445, 447

E

Eagle wood, 439
Earth mouse, 374
Earth-nut oil, 513
East India ginger, 416, 418
East Indies, imports of indigo from, 477
Eddoes or cocos, 364
Edward's preserved potatoes, 361
Egyptian corn, 307
Elais, species furnishing palm oil, 524
Elate sylvestris_ fruit, a masticatory, 579
Elettaria Cardomomum_, 421
Eleusine corocana_, 304
Encephalartos cafer_, 319
English opium, 586
Eno bark, a black dye, 444
Epidendrum_, species of, 431
Ervum lens_, 312
Erythric acid, 489
Erythrina, a shade tree for the cacao, 15
Erysimum perfoliatum_, oil from, 512
Essences, 565
Essential oils, 565
Ethiopian pepper, 421
Eucalyptus_, bark of, for tanning, 494
Eugenia caryophyllata_, 397
Eulophia virens_, 354
Eupatorium glutinosum_, 643
Euphorbia Lathyris_, 510
Euterpe montana_, 549
Evans' (Dr.) Sugar Planter's Manual, 140
Evernia vulpina_, 488
Evodia triphylla_, used as a perfume, 550

F

Factory maund, about 70 pounds, 471
Fagara piperita_, 421
Fanega, a Spanish measure, the fifth part of an English quarter, equal to 12 quarrees, or 62 and 2-5ths acres, 13, 327
Fanegada, a Spanish land measure, 9
Farinaceous plants, 216
Fennel flower, 421
Ferula asafoetida_, 633
Fern roots as food, 377, 380
Fevillea scandens_, 511
Finlayson's description of gambier manufacture, 500
Fish oils consumed, 509
Fitzmaurice on the sugar cane, 180
Fixed oils, 510
Flax seed oil, 509, 501
Flores, a commercial classification of indigo, 456
Florida, tobacco culture in, 609
Flour, damaged, shipped from America, 227
Flowering of the sugar cane, 182
Food plants of commerce, 217
Foo-foo, the dough of the plantain, 324
Fortune (Mr. R.) on the tea districts, 89
Fortune's (Mr. R.) wanderings in China, 103
Fownes (Mr.) on clarifying cane juice, 164
France, production of beet sugar in, 194, 200
Frazla, the Arabian name for a bale of variable weight, in Mocha about 16 lbs. avoirdupoise,
Free trade policy, effects of, 2
French berries for dyeing, 443
Fucus amylaceus_, 380
Fundi or Fundungi, an African grain, 310
Fustic, 445, 447, 485

G

Gallipoli oil, 531
Gallo tannic acid, 492
Galidupa arborea_, 521
Garancine, quantity and value of, 483, 484
Gambier plant, 496
Gamboge, 451
Garcinea elliptica_, 451
Garbelled, a term for sorted or picked
Gabilla, a finger or hank of tobacco, 613
Galangale root, 351, 418
Garcinea Gambogia_, 640
Garnett (Mr. A.) on the culture of the plantain, 320
Galam butter, 538
Gastrodia sesamoides_, 375
Gesner (Dr.), plants recommended by, for cultivation, 371
Genipa Americana_, 444
Genista tinctorea_, 453
Gentian, plants furnishing it, 640
Ghee, 538
Ginger, culture of, 414
Gin, made from rye in Holland, 258
Gigartina Iichenoides_, 379
Gingelie seed oil, 511, 533
Ginseng, 436
Glen (Mr. J.), his experiments on Cassava starch, 370
Gloves made from bark, 376
Gluten contained in various grain crops, 264
Gluten, composition of, 221
Glycirrhiza, 643
Glyrine Apios_, 371
Glycerine, 643
Glycirrhiza glabra_, 642
Gnizotia oleifera_, 535
Gohyan, an Indian name for upland rice, 282
Gold of pleasure oil, 509
Gomuti palm sugar, 136
Gomatus saccharifer_, 314
Goor, the Indian name for half-made sugar, 308
Gorham's (Prof.) analysis of maize, 264
Gourds used for packing aloes, 630
Gracelaria lichenoides_, 379
Graham (Dr.), on gamboge, 639
Gram, the Indian name for the Ervum lens_, and _Cicer arietinum_, 312
Grain crops, 217
Grape sugar, properties of, 136
Grater for rasping arrowroot, 338
Grenada, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
Great Exhibition, results of, 2
Green tea, mode of manufacturing, 113
Griffith (Dr.) on tea plants in Assam, 111
Groundnut oil, 511
Guano, not much required in tropical countries, 7
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
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
Gynerium saccharoides_, 136
Gyrophora murina_, 486

H

Hamatoxylon campechianum_, 484
Hamilton (Dr.), on oil of ben, 523
Havana tobacco, classification of, 613
Hayti, exports of tobacco, 615
Hazel nut, oil from, 510
Hebradendron Cambogoides_, 451, 639
Heather, dye from, 453
Hectare, a French land measure, equal to about 2½ acres, 204
Hectolitre, a French measure 192¼ 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
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
Hydrastica canadensis_, 625
Hymenoea Courbaril_, 313
Hyperanthera Moringa_, 523
Hypericum, species of, furnishes gamboge, 454, 640

I

Iceland moss, 343, 379
Illepe oil, 537, 511
Ilex Paraguayensis_, indigenous to Brazil, 130
Illicum anisatum_, 438
Impey (Dr.) on Malwa opium, 587
Implements of colonial agriculture few and simple, 6
Imports of arrowroot, 351, 354
Import commerce, our principal, articles furnished by the Vegetable Kingdom, 4
Incense wood, 439
Indigo, details of, 453
Indigofera_, species of, 453
India, tea culture in, 98
Indiana, tobacco culture in, 607
Indian aloes, 630
Indian corn, weight of, 280
Intoxicating liquors made from Cassava, 369
Iodine, 378
Ipecacuan, bastard, 653
Ipomoea batatas_, 365
Ireland, tobacco consumed in, 596
Irish rock moss, 379
Iron, quantity of, in tobacco, 617
Irrigation for the tea plant never practised in China, 122
Isatis Indigotica_,104

J

Jaggery sugar, 555
Japanese camphor, 633
Japan, tea culture, 94
Jatropha curcas_, oil from, 512
Jacobson's (Mr.) work on tea culture in Java, 102
Jalap, 641
Jamaica, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
Jameson (Dr.) on the culture of tea in India, 106
Java, cinnamon cultivated in, 383, 392
Jack fruit tree, 319
Janipha, starch in, 331
Jasmine oil, 570, 574
Jatropha gossypyfolia_, 625
Jellies, clearness of, 337
Jesuit's bark, 635
Joar, the Indian name of the Sorghum vulgare_ or millet, 304, 306
Job's tears, 304
Johnson (Dr.) on manufacture of rose water, 570
Jones's process for making rice starch, 344
Jumowah, irrigated sowings, 468
Juniperus, oil of, 565

K

Kafir bread, 319
Kamas root, an edible, 376
Kanari kernels made into cakes, 547
Katjang oil, produce of the ground nut, 515, 299
Kawan, the Java tallow tree, 511
Kashmir, culture of rice in, 295
Kemmayes, an Arabian truffle, 381
Kew Gardens, tea plant grows in, 101
Kekune oil, 539
Kentucky tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
Keora oil, 565
Khoonte, the Indian name for a second cutting, 471
Kiln-drying madder, 481
Kilogramme, a French weight, equal to 21bs. 3oz. avoird., 194
Kino, Australian, 506
Knowltonia vessicatoria_, 626
Koster's Travels in Brazil, 186
Kous-kous, 311
Kooyah plant, 376
Kukui oil, 539
Kumaon, tea plantations in, 117

L

Laudanum, 584
Lawsonia inermis_, 486
Laminaria saccharina_, 379
Lathyrus tuberosus_,374
Larch bark edible, 376
Laurus camphora_, 633, 35
La Guayra, cacao from, 13
Lana dye, 444
Lecythis Tabucajo_, 512
Lemon grass oil, 672
Legumes, varieties of, 312
Lecanora, species of, 432
Lentils, 312
Leaf tobacco shipped from the Havana, 614
Liberia, suitability for coffee culture, 77
Lichen tribe as food, 378
Lichens, 486
Lichenin, 343
Licospermun racemosum_, 605
Lindley (Dr.) on the cinchonas, 635
Litmus, 452
Lignum aloes, 439
Litre, a French measure, equal to 1¾ English pint nearly, 202
Lime, its influence on cane juice, 161
Lindley (Prof.) on the wheat of South Australia, 221
Lindley's classification of the plantain tribe, 322
Liptospermum, oil of, 565
Lilium Pomponium_, 356
Lindley (Dr.) on the lichens, 486
Linseed, 535
Little (Mr.) on opium, 587
Libra, a Spanish kind of tobacco, 613
Liquorice, 642
Logwood, 445, 447, 484
Lotus seeds, used as food, 356
Locust tree, 313
Louisiana, cost of producing sugar in, 189
Loxa bark, 636
Luffas, properties of, 626
Luggie, a measuring rod, 471
Lucca oil, 531

M

Macfarlane (Mr. A.) on the tea plant,117
Madder, culture of, 478
Madia sativa_ oil, 520
Mahowa oil, 537
Maclura tinctoria_, 485
Mauritius weed, 486
Mangrove bark, for tanning, 493
Mac Micking (Mr.) on making cigars, 620
Margose oil, 537
Macaw tree, 519
Maxwell (Dr.) on Neem oil, 537
Marc of olives, 531
Mango, kernel of, for bread, 378
Marmala water, 574
Malabar cardamoms, 419
Manila, exports of indigo from, 476
Mattrasses, stuffed with blades of Indian corn, 281
Macculloch's (Mr.) estimate of indigo, 478
Maize, number of varieties cultivated, 278
Malphigia bark, for tanning, 495
Maslin, quantity grown in France, 250
Mace, imports of, 414
Malt, quantity made, 255
Mahoe, furnishes a dye stuff, 444
Mauritius, exports of pepper, 426
Mangrove bark, 450, 506
Madagascar cardamoms, 419
Mangostana Gambogia_, 451, 640
Maple sugar, 205
Manettia glabra_, 641
Madeira, introduction of the tea plant, 94
Madras, tea culture suitable for, 101
Marah (Mr.) prize essay on coffee culture, 69
Malambo bark, 636
Machinery for sugar, 140
Magdalena river, cacao indigenous on its shores, 14
Magnolia fuseata_, used to flavor tea, 85
Majoon, an opium confection, 585
Malabar, production of coffee in, 41
Malwa opium, 580
Manure, a special for tobacco, 592
Manures, suited to the coffee tree, 50
Manioc, see Cassava
Manihot, species of, 367
Mansana, a land measure of 100 square yards, or nearly two British statute acres, 455
Manyroot, 625
Maranta arundinacea_, juice of an antidote to poisons, 627
Marattia alata_, 380
Maryland tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
Mate, a name for the Paraguay tea, 133
Matico, 643
Matias bark, 636
Maund of Surat, 39¼ lbs.
Melaleuca minor_, 566
Metrosideros tomentosa_, 505
Mesembryanthemum nodiflorum_, 494
Menispermum coceulus_, 576
Megass, a name given to the dried cane stems, or trash used for fuel, 168
Meleguetta pepper, 420
Melsen's process of sugar boiling, 203
Mespilus Bengalensis_, 443
Mendo, a wild sweet potato of North America, 372
Menomine, an Indian edible root, 372
Mexican thistle, 626
Mexico, imports of indigo from, 477
Metroxylon sagus_, 314
Millet, varieties of, cultivated, 304
Miller on tobacco culture, 608
Mill, rude one, used in Siam for hulling paddy, 302
Mills for cleaning rice, 286, 288
Minot, a Canadian grain measure about one-eighth less than a bushel, 251
Milloco, a tuberous plant, 374
Mint, culture of, 567
Mimosa bark, 504
Mico or mijo, a vegetable butter made in Java, 313, 512
Monkey bread, 378
Morinda, species of, 443, 449
Morewood (Mr. E.), his exertions in Natal, 140
Mocha, production of coffee in, 41
Mother cloves, definition of, 397
Moussache, the fecula of the manioc, 315
Mountain rice, 285, 290, 296
Morphia, proportion in opium, 584, 585
Mora excelsa_, 495
Morinda citrifolia_, 478
Moringa oil, 523
Musa, species of, 319
Musquash root of the Micmacs, 371
Mustard seed, 437
Muscovado sugar, cost of producing, 189
Mucuna pruriens_, 625
Muchowa_ oil, 511
Musa textilis_, 321
Mustard oil, 510, 511
Munjeet, 449
Munjestha_, 484
Muracuja ocellata_, a narcotic, 489
Myrica cerifera_, 494, 540
Myrtus carophyllata_, 284
Myristica_, varieties of the tree, 401
Myrobolans, 506
Myrtle wax, 540
Mysore, production of coffee in, 41

N

Napoota_ oil, 620
Nauclea Gambir_, 496
Namur oil, 572
Natal Agricultural Society, its endeavours to promote sugar cultivation, 139
Narthex asafoetida_, 633
Nelumbium_, seed of, as food, 378
New South Wales, suited for madder, 482
Negrohead tobacco, 601
New Orleans, capabilities for rice culture, 287
Nerium_, 453
Neem tree oil, 511, 537
Nicaragua wood, 445, 447
Nipa fruticana_, 136
Nipah, leaf for thatching, 559
Nicotine, 590
Nicotium_, species of the plant, 590
Nitrogen, in grain, 307
Nigella, species of, 421
North West Provinces, tea culture in, 117
Nostoe edulis_, 378
Northern Australia, directions for growing tobacco, 623
Nut oil, price of, 517
Nutgall, tannin in, 492, 495
Nut pine, 377
Nutmeg tree, 401
Nux vomica_, 577
Nyctanthes arbortristes_, 494
Nymphæa lotus_, starch obtained from, 352

O

Oats, proportion of oil in, 564
Oatmeal, imported 218
Oats and beans, produce of in England, 248
Oak bark, tannin in, 492
Ocas, a tuberous plant, 374
Ocoes or taniers, 331
Ocymum tuberosum_, 356, 367
Ohio tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
Oil of aniseed, 438
Oil, proportions of in various crops, 264
Oil of cubebs, 639
Oil of cloves, 398
Oilcake as a manure, 50
Oil palm, 525
Oils, burning properties of various, 508
Oldenlandia umbellata_, 449
Oleaginous plants, 509
Olea fragrans_, 528
Olives, mode of preserving the fruit, 530
Olive oil, prices of, 531
Omen-e-chah, the Indian name for a wild bean, 372
Onions, planted with arrow root, 347
Ophelia chitrata_, 641
Opium, history and trade of, 580
Orceine, 488
Orchilla weed, 452
Orchids furnishing salep, 354
Orituco cacao, superior quality of, 14
Oryza, varieties of, 284
Orlong, a land measure in the East, equal to 1-1/3 acre, 297
O'Shaughnessy's analysis of Ceylon moss, 380
Oswego starch factory, 343
Otto of khuskhus, 573
Otaheite cane, 153
Oude, production of indigo in, 464, 475
Oxalic acid, used for vinegar, 312
Oxley (Dr.) on nutmeg culture, 402

P

Paddy, a name for rice in the husk, 297
Patchouly, 537
Pannam kilingoes, 376
Parchment coffee, 60
Pao Crava_, one of the spice barks, 384
Pachyrrhizus angulatus_, 377
Palm oil, imports of, 527
Palm oil, 509, 524
Palma Christi, 542
Palmetto palm, 495
Palmyra nut, first shoot of, edible, 376
Pan, a masticatory, 577
Pancratium, species of, 625
Pandanus, fruit of eaten as food, 377
Panicum, various species of, 304
Panax quinquefolium_, 436
Palos de Velas_, 521
Paper made from plantain fibre, 335
Papsalum exile_, 310
Papaver somniferum_, 580
Paraguay tea plant common in Brazil. 130
Parietinic acid, 488
Parmenteira cerifera_, 521
Parmelia, species of lichens, 486
Peas, analysis of, 264
Peeling coffee, 51, 60
Peligot (Mr.) on the composition of wheat, 230
Pepper, black, 421
Peppermint oil, 566
Peon, the Spanish term for a laborer, 135
Persea gratissima_, 444
Perfumed oils, 569
Persian berries, 443
Peas imported, 218
Pessaloo, an Indian name for the Phaseolus mungo_
Pereira's classification of the cinchonas, 636
Peruvian bark, 635
Pearl sago, 318
Piper angustifolium_, 643
Petty rice, 310
Pekea_, species of, yielding oil, 512
Pea-nut, 516
Persian tobacco, 615
Phaseolus, varieties of, 312
Phaseolus Mungo max_, 171
Phalaris caniesis_, 314
Phlomis, 643
Philippines, cassia brought from, 394
Philippine Islands, sugar cultivation in, 153
Philippines, export of indigo from, 476
Phillip's (Dr.) analyses of Guinea corn, 307
Phyllodadus trichomanoides_, 505
Physic nut, 512, 625
Picul, a Dutch weight of 133-1/3 English pounds, 36
Piddington's (Mr.) analyses of tobacco, 617
Pigeon-pea, 304
Pignons, use of as food, 377
Pimpinella Anisitm_, 437
Pimento, 430
Pinang, nutmegs in, 412
Piper Betel, 577
Pinus Pinea_, seeds of the cones used for food, 377
Piney tallow, 512
Plantation sugar, imports, 139
Plantado passado, 323
Plantain, dye stuffs obtained from, 444
Planche, his memoir on the sagos, 315
Plumeria_, essences of, 524
Plectranthus graveolens_, 573
Plough used in Brazil, 184
Polygonum fagopyrum_, 260
Poa Abyssinica_, 308
Pomegranates, for dyeing, 440
Potash an important element in maize, 267
Potatoes, mode of keeping in Peru, 361
Potato, information respecting, 10
Poisons, 627
Pomme des Prairies_, of the Canadians, 373
Pounding coffee, 61
Population of Great Britain, &c., 87
Porto Rico, exports of coffee, 77
Poonac, as manure, 50
Pomegranate bark, 493, 495
Poonay oil, 511-13
Polygonum tinctorium_, 453
Pongamia glabra_, 521
Pogostemon patchouly_, 573
Poppy, culture of, 581
Polypodium crassifolium_, used as a perfume, 550
Preserved Plantains, 323
Prices, average of sugar, 145
Prickly poppy, 626
Princeza snuff, 594
Prince of Wales Island, clove culture in, 399
Prosopis pallida_, 313
Protein compounds, 307, 310, 342
Produce of various plants, 9
Production, average of various plants, 9
Provence oil, 531
Province Wellesley, clove culture in, 400
Prussia, tobacco consumed by, 596
Pruning coffee tree, 69
Psoralia, varieties of, 372
Pteris esculenta_, 380
Pterocarpus marsupium_, 493
Pulping mill for coffee, 51
Purging nut, 625
Pulse, culture of, 312
Putchuk or Costus, 438
Punjaub, proposed culture of tea in, 101
Pustulatus_ moss, 486

Q

Qually, an iron vessel for drying sago, 317
Quarree, a Spanish land measure, about 5¾ English acres, 326
Quassia wood, 643
Quas, a fermented Russian beverage, 308
Quercitron, 443
Quercus tinctoria_, 443, 485
Quintal, the Spanish cwt., equal to 101¾ lbs. English,
Quinine, imports of, 636
Quillai, bark of, used for soap, 574
Quinoa, 310

R

Railways, large consumption of oil for, 513
Ramos (Mr.) his dessicating agent for sugar, 140, 162
Ramalina fufuracea_, 486
Ram-til, 535
Ramsay (Mr. C. J.) on beet sugar manufacture, 200
Ranunculus, properties of, 626
Rape oil, 609
Rape seed, quantity imported, 563
Raphis fabelliformis_, 314
Red pepper, 429
Reseda lutea_, 452
Revenue from sugar, 143
Rhamnus, varieties of, 442
Rhizaphora mangle_, 493, 506
Rhubarb, 644
Rhus, species of, 450
Ricinus communis_, 542
Rial, a Spanish coin worth 6d., 135
Rice starch, 344
Rice imported, 218
Richardsonia scabra_, 641
Rimu, or red pine, 505
Robertson (Mr.) on the collection of Paraguay tea, 133
Robiquet (E.) analysis of aloes, 629
Rocella dye, 452
Room, an Indian dye stuff, 443
Roucou, a name for arnotto, 447
Rotation of crops, 243
Root crops, 355
Rollers, proportionate advantages of those with 3 & 4, 168
Roxburgh on the sugar cane, 179
Roses, cultivation of, 570
Rottlera tinctoria_, 442
Royle's (Prof.) productive resources of India, 103
Rubia cordifolia_, 484
Ruellia tuberosa_, 625
Ruellia, a dye stuff, 443
Rupee, an Indian coin worth about, 2s
Russia, production of beet sugar in, 199
Rye, analysis of, 258

S

Sappan wood, 445, 446, 447
Salisbury (Dr.), analysis of maize, 265
Saxony, beet sugar manufacture in, 199
Salt, recommended as a fertiliser, 172
Santalum album_, 565
Saa-ga-ban root of the Indians, 371
Saga, the Java name for bread, 314
Saccharum sinensis_ of Roxburgh, 136, 169
Safflower, 450
Salangore sugar cane, an excellent variety, 154
Sandwich Islands, arrowroot made in, 352
Sandbox, seeds of, emetic, 626
Saul tree, wood useful for tea boxes, 114
Sarsaparilla, 645
Saguerus Rumphii_, 314, 316
Salep, 354
Samshing, a refuse produce of opium, 585
Sandoway in Arracan produces superior tobacco, 616
Saponaceous plants, 674
Sapindus, varieties of, 574
Salvadora persica_, 521
Sapindus marginatus_, 521
Saouari oil, 512
Sanguinaria canadensis_, 511
Scammony, 642
Scharling's (Dr.) test for adulterated arrowroot, 349
Schomburgk (Sir R.), arrowroot forwarded by, 352
Scotland, produce of grain in, 249
Seed leaf tobacco, 606
Senna, varieties of, 647
Sesame oil, 511, 533
Setaria italica_, 305
Shanghae oil, 511
Sheet lead, manufacture of for tea cases, 114
Shorea robusta_, 114, 521
Shier (Dr.), his opinion on cassava starch, 370
Shea butter, 538
Shiraz tobacco, 613
Sicily oil, 531
Siam gamboge, 639
Sidu lanceolata_, 574
Sugar, obtained from the palm tree, 314
Simaruba amara_, 643
Singapore, produce of gambier in, 501
Sinapis, species of, yielding oil, 512
Silica, essential for wheat soils, 240
Singhara nuts, 378
Sinde, culture of rice in, 293
Smith (Dr.), his experiments in tea culture in America, 95
Snuff, duty received on, 597
Sorghum officinarum_, 136
Soap, made from coco-nut oil, 559, 562
Soil suited to coffee, 68
Solly (Prof.) on the want of a hand-hook for the cultivator, 1
Society of Arts, premiums offered by, 2
Soconusco, the finest cacao, 13
Socotrine aloes, analysis of, 629
Soja hispida_, 313
Soy, mode of making, 313
Sohrinjee oil, 478, 523
South Australia, tobacco culture in, 624
South Carolina, exports of rice from, 285
Sooranjee, 478, 523
Spergula sativa_, flour from the seed, 377
Sphoeroccus crispus_, 379
Spanish moss, 380
Spices, plants which furnish, 382
Spikenard oil, 572
Spondius lutea_, 495
Spergula sativa_, 512
Stalagmites cambogoides_, 451
Star anise, 438
Starch producing plants, 329
Starch contained in various grain crops, 264
Statice coriaria_, 444
Stenhouse (Dr.) on the lichens, 490
Stillingia sebifera_, 512
St. John's bread, 312-13
St. Lucia, cost of cultivating sugar, in, 189
St. Kitt's, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
St. Domingo, exports of coffee to the United States, 63
St. Vincent, introduction of the clove to, 399
Straits settlements, nutmeg culture in, 407
Sumbul root, 649
Surat maund, 39¼ lbs., 401
Sumach, 450
Sunflower oil, 509-10-36
Sullivan (Mr.) on cost of beet root sugar, 191
Sugar, cost of producing in different countries, 189
Sugar cane, varieties of, 137, 153, 168
Sugar, information respecting, 10
Sugar maple, 205
Sumatra, production of coffee in, 41
Sumatra, production of pepper in, 422
Sweet cassava, 331
Sweet potato, 330-31-37-65
Swift (Mr.) on the culture of madder, 480
Swamp potato, 373
Sxygium carophyllæum_, 384
Sylvanus surinamensis_, 279
Symplocos, varieties of, 442

T

Tacca plant, species of, 354
Tahiti arrowroot, 354
Talipot palm, furnishes sago, 316
Tallicoonah oil, 518
Tallow tree of China, 512
Tanping, a Chinese oil cake, 312
Tannin of nutgalls, 492
Tannia, 334-35-36-37
Tanahaka bark, 505
Tapioca sago, 315
Tasmannia aromatica_, 421
Taro, 364
Tartareous moss, 486
Taniers, or ocoes, 331
Taurine, Leibig on, 80
Tea, total outlay for by the British public, 86
Teel or Til oil, 511, 533
Teff, an African bread, 308
Teinsing, a Chinese vegetable dye, 104
Temperature requisite for various plants, 8, 9
Tempering cane juice, 158
Tenacity of starches, 336
Terminalia angustifolia_, 494
Terra Japonica, a misnomer, 490
Teuss, a Chinese legume, 312
Texas, production of sugar in, 147
Thespesia populnea_, 444
Thea viridis_, 103, 110
Theine, analysis of, 80
Thistle oil, 511, 103, 110, 626
Theobromine, 11
Theobroma_, description of the tree, 11
Tikoor, a local name for Indian arrowroot, 351
Til oil, 511
Tip-sin-ah, a wild prairie turnip of North America, 372
Tinnevelly senna, 648
Ti plant, 355
Tirhoot, production of indigo in, 475
Tobacco, memorial of American Chamber of Commerce, 595
Tonquin beans, 434
Tous-les-mois, starch of, 330-33-35-37-40
Topinam bar, 365-76
Topping the coffee tree, 68
Towai bark, 505
Toddy, 555
Travers (Mr. J.I.) on consumption of tea, 87
Trinidad, exports of coffee from, 73
Tropæolum tuberosum_, 536
Tripa, a name for damaged tobacco leaves, 611
Tripolium alpinum_, 643
Truffle, 381
Tuberous plants, new, recommended, 370
Tuber cibarium_, 381
Turkey berries, 442
Turmeric, 419, 434, 442
Turnips, average weight of crop in New Brunswick, 253
Turpentine, spirits of, 565
Typha bread, 380
Tye, a preparation of opium, 585

U

Unearia Gambier_, 496
United States, production of sugar in, 145
Upland rice, 302
Ure (Dr.), on arrowroot manufacture, 347
Urania guianensis_, 444

V

Valenaria edulis_, 376
Valonia, 507
Van Diemen's Land, culture of oats in, 258
Vanilla, 431
Vara, a Spanish land measure, 9
Variolaris_, species of lichens, 486
Varzeas, a Portuguese name for low and marshy ground, 183
Vateria indica_, 512
Vegetable butter, 538
Velvet moss, 486
Venezuela, coffee culture in, 62
Verbesena sativa_, 535
Vernonia anthelmentica_, 521
Vinegar, made from millet, 306
Virginian tobacco, statistics of, 598, 600
Virola sebifera_, 401, 512
Voandzou, 371
Voelcker (Dr.), analysis of quinoa, 310
Volatile or essential oils, 565
Vuelta abajo_, the best class of Cuba tobacco, 613
Vulpinic acid, 488

W

Wabessepin, a wild American potato, 372
Wages paid in the Mauritius, 150
Walnut, oil from, 510
Wangle, oil seed, 533
Watappinee, an Indian edible root, 372
Water, proportion of in different kinds of wheat, 221
Wax berries, 546
Weinmaunia_, bark of, 499
Weight per bushel of crops in New Brunswick, 253
Wellstead (Lt.) on Socotro aloes, 629
Westring (Dr.) on the Swedish lichens, 489-90
West India ginger, 418
Wheat, weight of, as an index of value, 236
White pepper, statistics of, 428
Whisky, quantity of maize used for, 271
Wilcockes on Paraguay tea trade, 135
Williams's Middle Kingdom, extract from, 105
Willoughbeia edulis_, 378
Wilson (Mr. T.) on the cost of producing sugar, 189
Wilson's rice-cleaning machine, 290
Winnowing coffee, 51
Woad, 452
Wood dyes, 449
Wray's practical sugar planter, 140
Wrightia tinctoria_, 463

X

Xanthoxylum piperitum_, 421
Xiguilite_, the indigo shrub, 460
Xylocarpus granatum_, 519
Xylopia aromatica_, 421

Y

Yam, back, 333, 335, 337-38-39, 362
Yams, varieties of cultivated, 362
Yampah root, 376
Yellow berries, 443
Yerba, Spanish and native name for the Paraguay tea tree, 133
Yucca amarga_, 331
Yucca, the Peruvian name for cassava, 367, 375

Z

Zamia, arrowroot obtained from, 319, 352
Zanzibar, clove plantations in, 400
Zea Mays_, description of, 260
Zingiber officinale_, 414
Zizania aquatica_, 284
Zones, Meyen's division of, 25
Zollverein, production of beet root sugar in, 198