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CONTENTS. 



PAGB 



Sappeon. — "Where grown — Its cultivation and preparation — Peculiar 

 soil required — Analysis of it — Production and export from France . . 379 



TuEMEETC. — Commercial varieties of — Its uses — British imports . . . . 382 



CuTCH. — Trees yielding it — Mode of preparation — Statistics of exports 

 from Pegu and Burmah — Imports into the United Kingdom 384 



Gambiee.— Plants producing it — Mode of manufacture — Exports from 

 Singapore — Imports into the United Kingdom 387 



Annotta. — Growth and preparation — Uses — Land under culture with 

 it in the French colonies — British imports 388 



Henna. — Uses of the dye — Extent of the production — Plants which 

 produce it 390 



Alkanet Koot. — Its uses 391 



SECTION V. — The Oil-seeds and Vegetable Oils op Commerce. 



The Olive. — Distribution of the tree — Statistics of exports of olive oil 

 from the principal countries — Imports into the United Kingdom — 



Production in Italy — Imports and consumption at Marseilles — Pro- 

 duction in Balearic Islands — Syria — Greece — Cape Colony — France 



— Spain — Algeria — Morocco — Tunis 392 



Linseed Oil. — Preparation and mode of expression — Quantity produced 



— Imports of flax seed — Exports of seed-oils — Statistics of production 

 and consumption in France 399 



The Geound-nut. — Its production in different countries — Statistics of 

 imports at Marseilles — Growth and exports of the ground-nut from the 

 Gambia Country, West Africa — Shipments from Sierra Leone to France 



— Use of the oil' — Analysis of ground-nut meal — Sold as peanuts in 

 the United States — Quantities grown in America, in India, Mozambique, 

 and Senegal 400 



Cotton-seed Oil.— Immense quantity of seed available in various countries 



— Large export from Egypt — British imports of cotton seed — Oil-seed 

 cakes — Great varieties produced — Statistics of imports of foreign made 404 



The Castoe Oil Plant. — Variety of species — Preparation of the oil — 

 Statistics of imports 405 



Eape Seed. — Mode of culture in France — Extent of land under colza — . 

 Statistics of colza oil — Imports of rape seed into the United Kingdom — 

 Production of oil and oil-seeds in France 408 



MusTAED Seed.— Species cultivated — The mustard of commerce — Large 

 quantity made in France — Colza and ravison seeds imported into 

 Marseilles 411 



Sapplowee Oel. — Its production and uses 412 



Sesame Seed. — Its growth and employment — Diflferent names given to it 



— Yield of oil — Large quantities of the seed received in Marseilles — 

 Oilcake made from it 412 



NiGEE Seed. — Its uses — Production of oil in the United States — Im- 

 mense trade in oil-seeds, oils, and oilcake in Maiseilles — Statistics of 

 oil-seeds shipped from India 415 



Gold op PLEAsrEE, oe Ca3ielina Seed. — Culture of the plant . . . . 416 



Sunplowee-seed Oil. — Culture and production — Yield and uses of the 

 plant — Oilcake — Extensive production inEussia, and statistics of seed 417 



