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

[STARCH-PRODUCING PLANTS investigated.]

[Characters of starch from different plants.]
[Tenacity and clearness of jellies; per centage of starch yielded, and produce of plant per acre; their meal as articles of export.]
[Indian Corn starch.]
[Rice starch.]

[ARROWROOT: East and West India, culture and statistics of.]

[ROOT CROPS: Potatoes, Yams, Cocos, or Eddoes, Sweet Potatoes, Cassava or Manioc.]

[NEW TUBEROUS PLANTS recommended as substitutes for the potato.]

[MISCELLANEOUS FOOD PLANTS.]

[LICHENS and MOSSES.]

[FERNS.]

[CINNAMON.]

[Limited range of the culture in Ceylon.]
[Analysis of the soil most favorable to the tree.]
[Peeling.]
[Various kinds of bark; commercial classification, distinguishing properties of good cinnamon; suitability of the Straits Settlement for cinnamon plantations; oil of cinnamon; statistics and exports from Ceylon, and prices realised; reduction of the duty; extent of land under cultivation with the tree; progress of the culture in Java; exports thence to Holland.]