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LOUREIRO. Flora Cochinchinensis. Ulyssepone, 1792. 

 The authority for the Elephant cane. 



MIQUEL. Flora Indiae Bataviae. Amsterdam, 1855. 

 NEES, ESENBECK VON. Agrostologia. Stuttgart, 1829. 

 Contains a history of early sugar cane planting in Brazil. 



PHILLIPS, H. A. The History of Cultivated Vegetables. London, 1822. 



Piso, G. De Arboribus in Brasilia. Leyden, 1658. 



ROCHEFORT, DE H. Histoire naturelle et moral des Antilles de rAmerique. 



Rotterdam, 1665. 



ROXBURGH, H. Flora Indica. London, 1832. 

 The authority for the Chinese Cane. 



RUMPF, G. Herbarium Amboinense. Leyden, 1741-53. 



A great classical pre-Linnean work on botany. It gives a very complete account 

 of the cultivation of the cane as carried on by the Chinese, and is perhaps the 

 first work to describe and discuss cane varieties. 



SCHACHT, H. Madeira und Tenerifa mit ihre Vegetations. Berlin, 1859. 

 Contains a complete analysis of the flower and the anatomy of the cane. 



SLOANE, HANS. A Voyage to the Islands Madera, Barbados, etc. with the 

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Gives details of manufacturing and cultivating processes, and contains a fine 

 drawing of the inflorescence of the cane. 



TUSSAC, F. R. DE. Flora Antillarum. Paris, 1800-08. 



The best of the early descriptions of cultivation and manufacture. It contains 

 a first-hand account of the introductions of the Otaheite cane by Bligh, and of 

 the same and others by the French from Mauritius. The coloured plates are 

 remarkable for their fidelity and beauty. 



WORKS OF TRAVEL, HISTORIES, ETC. 



ALBERTUS, AGENSIS (1108) and JACOBUS DE VITRIACO (1124), in Gesta Dei 

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In this work is to be found the earliest European description of manufacture. 



ANGLERIUS PETER MARTYR. The first three decades of the New World. 

 English translation by R. Eden. London, 1555. 



The earliest description of sugar growing in the New World, fixing the dates 

 of the first beginnings in Hispaniola. 



BARROW, JOHN. Travels in China. London, 1806. 



BECKFORD, WILLIAM. A descriptive Account of the Island of Jamaica. 



London, 1790. 



BROWN, WILLIAM. Civil and Natural History of Jamaica. London, 1789. 

 BUCHANAN, HAMILTON. A Journey from Madras through the Countries 

 of Mysore, Canara and Malabar. London, 1807. 



A very detailed account of Indian methods of cultivation, irrigation, manufacture 

 and cost of production. 



CRAWFURD, JOHN. History of the Indian Archipelago. London, 1820. 

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Indian Colonies. London, 1690. 

 EDWARDS, BRYAN. A History, Civil and Commercial, of the West Indies. 



London. 



A classic, the chapters on the sugar industry being particularly interesting. 



FERMIN, PHILIPPE. Description generate, historique, geographique et 

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