USEFUL BOOKS FOR THE COLONIES. 



COFFEE AND CHICORY; the Culture, Chemical 



Composition, Preparation for Market, and Consumption, with simplii 

 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., illudntted by numerous icood engravings, post 8vo, cloth, 2s. 



THE YOUNG FARMER'S MANUAL, detailing 



the miini23uliition8 of the farm in a plain and intelligible manner, 

 with practical directions for laying out a fiirm, and erecting buddings, 

 fences, and farm gates ; embracing also ' The Young Parmer's Work- 

 shoi),' by S. E. Todd, numerous ivoodcuts, new edition, 3 vols., crown 

 8vo, cloth, 21s. 



TROPICAL AGRICULTURE, or the Culture, Pre- 

 paration, Commerce, and Consumption of the Principal Products of 

 the Vegetable Kingdom, as furnishing Food, Clothing, Medicine, etc., 

 and m their relation to the Arts and Manufactures; formino- a 

 practical treatise and Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, MsTnu- 

 facturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation 

 tor Shipment, and Commercial Value, etc., of the various Substances 

 obtained from Trees and Plants entering into the Husbandry of 

 Tropical and Sub-1'ropical 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 tlie other neighbours, on the whole subject of Manures and 

 1 ertilizers, by J. Harris, crown 8vo, cloth, 7s. Cd. 



CULTURAL INDUSTRIES FOR QUEENS- 

 LAND. 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. Beknays 

 F.L.S., F.R.G.S., Svo, 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., Svo, boards, 2s. 6d. 

 Contents : 

 Introductory Remarks— Natural Productions— Architecture and Engineering- 

 Measures Jt'c ^ete''''' ''"'' ^^'""^ History — Priucipal Stations — wlights and 



No 2. SOUTHERN AFRICA, including the Cape Colony, 

 Natal, and the Dutch Republics, by Henry Hall, F.R.G S . 

 F.R.C.I., Svo, ivith map, 3s. 6c/. 



ig^Gd ^' ■^^■^^^' ^y ^- ^- Danvers, Assoc. Inst. C.E., ivith map, 



E. & F. N. SPON, 126, Strand, London. 



New York : 35, Murray Street. 



