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Candle Nuts. — Trees yielding them — Analysis of the nut and of the oil- 



cake — The oil obtained from it — Its uses 419 



Japan Wax. — Trees which produce it — Preparation and uses — Prices 

 — Statistics of exports 421 



Poppy-seed Oil. — Growth and production 422 



Melon-seed Oil.— Statistics of production 423 



Physic Nut. — Description of oil production in the Azores — Various names 

 given to the seeds . . 423 



CuoTON Oil 424 



Chinese Oils. — Plants which yield them — Bean oil and bean-cake — 

 trade in them — Land under culture with oil-seeds in Madras . . , . 424 



Oil op Ben .. 425 



SECTION VI. — The Peinoipal Fruits op Commerce. 



Vine Culture and the Grape. — Imports of grapes into the United King- 

 dom — Preparation of raisins and commerce in them — Quantity of wine 

 consumed in the United Kingdom — Land under culture with the vine 

 in various countries — Exports of wine from ditto — Statistics of produc- 

 tion of wine in France — Culture of the vine in Algeria — In the United 

 States — Production of wine in California — Varieties of grapes grown — 

 Export of raisins — Statistics of wine production in the Cape Colony — 

 in Australia — Acreage under vines.— History of wine manufacture in 

 South Australia — Production of currants and raisins — Vine culture in 



New South Wales — in Victoria — in Queensland 426 



Products op the Orange Family. — Wide extent of culture — Statistics 

 of imports of oranges and lemons into the United Kingdom — Sources of 

 supply — Great number of species and varieties of the Orange family — 



Description of them — Essential oils — Citron — Lemon — Trade in them 



— Lime juice — Statistics of production — Imports of oranges and 

 lemons into France — Production in Algeria — in the Azores — Statistics 

 of exports — New South Wales — Orange groves of Parramatta — Profits 

 made — Mode of culture — Production in South Australia — in Florida 



— in California — Culture and trade of the Bahamas — Shipments of 

 oranges from Tahiti — Fruit trade of Italy — Collecting and packing 

 the fruit — Average yield per tree — Essence of lemon — Lemon juice 

 and candied citron peel — Statistics of exports — Oranges shipped from 

 Spain — Fruit trade of Antwerp 438 



The Pine- apple. — Its growth in England — Varieties cultivated — Ex- 

 tensive culture in the Bahamas — Large production of fruit for export — 

 Season for shipment — Mode of packing — Extensive trade carried on 

 in tinning the fruit — Mode of preparing — Statistics of pine-apples 

 shipped to the United States — Prospects of increase of fruit trade in 

 Jamaica — Profits on culture — Shipments from the Azores — Fine fruit, 

 and mode of packing — Introduction of tlie pine-apple into India — 

 Pine-apple fibre, mode of preparation — Beautiful fine fabrics made of it 

 in the Philippines — Manufacture in the Straits Settlements — Fibre of 

 the Bromelias, or wild pine- apples — Extensive ditfusion of these plants 



— Uses to which applied 448 



The Plantain and Banana. — Importance and utility of the Musa tribe 



— The plantain as food — Extent of diffusion of the plantain — The 

 wild seed-bearing plantain — The Banana — Number of varieties — ■ 

 Chemical analysis of the fruit of the plantain — The horse plantain — 

 Large consumption in Trinidad — Geographical distribution of the 

 species — Soil best suited for its culture — Establishing a plantain walk 



