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garments of the uncounted millions of China ? The world of letters can 

 derive no aid from Chinese rags, until leather becomes more abundant in 

 that country. Crispin claims them all for soles ; the shoes of China have 

 soles an inch thick, formed of suitably prepared rags, faced with a thin 

 strip of leather. 



YELLOW POPPY SEED OIL. 



M. Cloez, of Paris, has recently made known the result of some experi- 

 ments relative to the Yellow Horned Poppy, Glaucium luteum, Scop., which 

 is found on some parts of our shores. It is common all round the 

 Mediterranean, and up the Western Coast of Europe to Scandinavia. It 

 expands its handsome yellow flowers during July and August, which are 

 succeeded by elongated capsules, containing a large number of minute seeds. 

 These seeds lose only 8 per cent, of water when dried in an oven ; and, 

 after drying, contain 42^ per cent, of a siccative oil, which can be used as 

 an aliment, or for burning. In its ordinary state the seed yields, by 

 pressure, thirty-two per cent, of this oil. The marc, or residue, con- 

 stitutes a valuable manure, giving, on analysis, six per cent, of nitrogen, 

 and an ash, amounting to 14| per cent., rich in phosphate of lime. This 

 oil, without doubt, resembles greatly the poppy-seed oil, obtained from 

 Papaver somniferum, and the plant might be cultivated for the sake of its 

 seeds on our sandy shores, where nothing else remunerative can be pro- 

 duced ; but we question whether it would yield anything like as much seed 

 per acre as the opium poppy, and, therefore, whether it would pay to culti- 

 vate it for that purpose. M. Cloez's results, however, are worthy of being 

 recorded. 



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South Kensington Museum (Animal and Food Products, and Building 

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Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn-street (Mineral Products). Free, 

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Museum of Economic Botany, Kew Gardens (Vegetable Products). 

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Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, Bloomsbury -square (Medicinal 

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