USEFUL BOOKS FOR THE COLONIES.
COFFEE AND CHICORY; the Culture, Chemical Composition, Preparation for Market, and Consumption, with simple tests for detecting adulteration, and practical hints for the Producer and Consumer, by P. L. Simmonds, F.S.S., author of ‘The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom,’ ‘Dictionary of Products,’ etc., etc., illustrated by numerous wood engravings, post 8vo, cloth, 2s.
THE YOUNG FARMER’S MANUAL, detailing the manipulations of the farm in a plain and intelligible manner, with practical directions for laying out a farm, and erecting buildings, fences, and farm gates; embracing also ‘The Young Farmer’s Workshop,’ by S. E. Todd, numerous woodcuts, new edition, 3 vols., crown 8vo, cloth, 21s.
TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, or the Culture, Preparation, Commerce, and Consumption of the Principal Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, as furnishing Food, Clothing, Medicine, etc., and in their relation to the Arts and Manufactures; forming a practical treatise and Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, etc., of the various Substances obtained from Trees and Plants entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-Tropical Regions, by P. L. Simmonds, second edition, revised and improved, in one thick vol., 8vo, cloth, 21s.
TALKS ON MANURES; a series of familiar and practical talks between the Author and the Deacon, the Doctor and the other neighbours, on the whole subject of Manures and Fertilizers, by J. Harris, crown 8vo, cloth, 7s. 6d.
CULTURAL INDUSTRIES FOR QUEENSLAND. Papers on the Cultivation of useful Plants suited to the climate of Queensland, their value as Food, in the Arts, and in Medicine, and methods of obtaining their products, by L. A. Bernays, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., 8vo, half calf, 7s. 6d.
The same in cloth, 6s.
SPONS’ INFORMATION FOR COLONIAL ENGINEERS, edited by J. T. Hurst.
No. 1. CEYLON, by Abraham Deane, C.E., 8vo, boards, 2s. 6d.