sold as jaggery, and is anything but attractive in 

 appearance. The same may be said of the purer arti- 

 cle from the same source known as kham. The manu- 

 facture of palm sugar, it is true, has, in India, attained 

 a very advanced state. About 1 1 ,000 pounds are 

 yearly extracted from that tree. The molasses is good, 

 and may be directly eaten. The sucrose (cane sugar) 

 crystallizes with ease. If the palm were grown over 

 some hundred thousand times the area it now is, 

 it might reduce considerably the price of sugar the 

 World over. But it may be justly said that it will 

 never be a source for sugar extraction in our Northern 

 climes. 



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