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CONTER, The cultivation of Sisal in Hawaii, Honolulu 1903. 

 EDWARDS, JMaguey in the Philippines (Farmer's Bulletin 



No. 10, Philippine Bureau of Agriculture), Manila 190. 

 Upon economic points several other works have been 

 consulted or might with advantage be referred to, where 

 accessible, e. g. 



ARRUDA DA CAMARA, " Dissertacao sobre as ptantes de 

 Brazil que podem dos linhos fyc" Rio de Janeiro* 

 1820. 



BERNARDIN, Nomenclature Usuelle de 550 Fibres Textiles, 

 8p. 9 Ghent 1872. 



ERNST, A. Descriptive Catalogues of Venezuelan products, 

 Philadelphia, Caraccas, and Columbian Exhibitions, 1876, 

 1883 (pub. 1886), and 1893. 



VETILLART, Fibres Vegetales Textiles, Paris 1876. 



SA.VORGNAN, Piante Tessili, Milan 1891. 



WIESNER, Indischen Faserpflauzen (in Sitzunqs bericht. K. 

 Akad. Wissensch.), Vienna 1870. 



Also papers in the Journal of the Society of Arts by Mr. 

 J. F. Watson and Sir Daniel Mom's. 



Eecent advances in the method of extracting fibre from 

 the Agaveae in their native country are treated in a work by 

 Dr. F. Martinez Calleja (Explotation de los Textiles, Mexico 

 1895) quoted in a Bulletin of the Hawaii Agricultural Experi. 

 mcnt Station (No. 4 already cited) which contains in brief 

 compass much that is interesting, from the planter's point of 

 view particularly. 



PART III. GLOSSARY. 



THIS takes in a somewhat wider field than the preceding 

 parts, because current and vernacular names of plants and their 

 products are not regulated or defined on any system. We have 

 aimed at including all names of this class (so far as known to 

 us) that appear to relate directly to the species treated in 

 Parts I and II ; but besides these there are sundry names or 

 terms which are apt to be confused with those more properly 

 applied to Agaveae, or to products derived from them. 



In India there is much confusion with regard to Aloes for 

 example ; while in America different products from the 



