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GINGER 



in importance to pepper, and in England one pound of it 

 cost as much as a full-grown sheep. 



Large quantities of it are still grown in India, where it is 

 preserved in syrup, and also used as a flavouring in the 

 celebrated Indian curries. From Asia the plant was introduced 



GINGER PLANT 



to the West Indies, and now Jamaica produces some of the 

 most famous ginger in the world. 



SOURCES OF SUPPLY. We buy very little ginger from foreign 

 countries. Our chief sources of supply are British India 

 (especially the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras), the West 

 Indies (mainly Jamaica), and Sierra Leone, in West Africa. 



