382 VEGETABLE SUBSTANCES. 



very short notice of that one among the sugar- 

 producing plants, which furnishes our own tables with 

 this indispensable article of daily consumption ; and 

 to a few particulars relating to the manufacture of 

 sugar, in France, from the White Beet. 



Sugar-canes. 



THE SUGAR-CANE Saccharum, officinarum must 

 be considered as a native of China, since it has been 

 pretty accurately shown that its cultivation was pro- 



