INDEX. 



G63 



Potato, information respecting, 10 



meal, syrup made from, 197 



the wild, of North America, 



372 



starch in, 330 



starch, used to adulterate ar- 

 row-root, 349 



test for detecting, 349 



starch, 334, 335, 337, 362 



crop of the United States. 361 



disease, 358 



proposed cure for, 359, 60 



crop in Ireland, 358 



varieties of, 358 



imports of, 359 



crop in France, 361 



Poisons, 627 



Pomme des Prairies, of the Canadians, 



373 



Pounding coffee, 61 

 Population of Great Britain, &c., 87 



of China, 86, 91, 298 



Porto Eico, exports of coffee, 77 



- cost of producing sugar in, 



189 



production of coffee in, 41 

 exports of tobacco, 615 



Poonac, as manure, 50 

 549, 552, 561 

 Pomegranate bark, 493, 495 

 Poonay oil, 511-13 

 Polygonum tinctorium, 453 

 Pongamia glabra, 521 

 Pogostemon patchouli/, 573 

 Poppy, culture of, 581 



oil, used to adulterate olive, 



532 



509-10-11-18 



Polypodium crassifolium, used as a per 



fume, 550 



Preserved Plantains, 323 

 Prices, average of sugar, 145 

 Prickly poppy, 626 

 Princeza snuff, 594 

 Prince of Wales Island, clove cultur 



in, 399 



Prosopis pallida t 313 

 Protein compounds, 307, 310, 342 

 Produce of various plants, 9 

 Production, average of various plants 



9 



Provence oil, 531 

 Province Wellesley, clove culture in 



400 

 Prussia, tobacco consumed by, 5 96 



production of beet sugar in 

 197-98 



Pruning coffee tree, 69 

 Psoralia, varieties of, 372 

 Pteris csculenta, 380 



Fterocarpus marsupium, 493 



santalinus, 445 



species of, 507 



Pulping mill for coffee, 51 

 Purging nut, 625 

 Pulse, culture of, 312 

 Putchuk or Costus, 438 



Punjaub, proposed culture of tea in, 



101 



Pustulatus moss, 486 

 Qually, an iron vessel for drying sago, 



317 

 Quarree, a Spanish lar.d measure, about 



5| English acres, 326 

 Quassia wood, 643 

 Quas, a fermented Russian beverage, 



308 

 Quercitron, 443 



485 



Quercus tinctoria, 443, 485 



suber, 504 



Quintal, the Spanish cwt., equal to 



lOl^lbs. English, 

 Quinine, imports of, 636 



manufacture of, 635 



Quillfii, bark of, used for soap, 574 

 Quinoa, 310 



species of, 507 



Railways, large consumption of oil for, 

 513 



Ramos (Mr.) his dessicating agent for 

 sugar, 140, 162 



Ramalina fwfuracea, 486 



Ram-til, 535 



Ramsay (Mr. C. J.) on beet sugar ma- 

 nufacture, 200 



Ranunculus, properties of, 626 



Rape oil, 609 



Rape seed, quantity imported, 563 



oil, 513 



cake, 564 



Raphis Jlabelliformis, 314 



Red pepper, 429 



Sanders wood, 445 



Sandal wood, 378 

 Reseda lutea, 452 

 Revenue from sugar, 143 

 Rhamnus, varieties of, 442 

 leaves of, used for tea in 



China, 105 



RMzaphora mangle, 493, 506 

 Rhubarb, 644 

 Rhus, species of, 450 

 Ricinus communis, 542 

 Rial, a Spanish coin worth 6d., 135 

 Rice starch, 344 



imports of, 303 



produce per acre, 356 



meal for feeding pigs, 03 



