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 Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.

by P. L. Simmonds

[INDIGO; plants which produce it.]

[Commercial sources of supply.]
[Cultivation in Central America, in Jamaica and the West Indies; once an important crop in the United States.]
[The indigo plant a common weed in many parts of Africa.]
[Cultivation in India.]
[Classification of the dye-stuff.]
[Localities best suited to its production.]
[Process of Manufacture.]
[Annual production in the East Indies; adaptation of Ceylon.]
[Extent of the culture in Java; annual exports therefrom; imports and consumption.]

[MADDER: extent of the demand for. Enormous profit of the cultivation; system of harvesting and manufacture.]

[Large supplies received from France.]

[MUNJEET, or Indian madder, deserving of more consideration.]

[LOGWOOD, FUSTIC, Quercitron.]

[Brazil Wood.]

[LICHENS FOR DYEING.]

[Henna.]

[ORCHILLA WEED.]