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for flax, bemp, linen, or other vegetable productions, it coald not 

 be lixed on wools or animal matter. Dr. Holroyd, of Sydney, some 

 time since, imported a ton of it for a friend near Batliurst. It is 

 of great importance that chemical science should be applied to 

 devise some means of fixing this valuable dye on wool. As the 

 tree is so common, the bark could be had in any quantity at about 

 £3 10s. a ton ; and our tweed manufacturers are in great want of 

 a blaciv dye for their check and other cloths. 



The principal hea^y woods used for dyeing are fustic, logwood, 

 JMicaragua wood, barwood, camwood, red Sanders wood, Brazil 

 wood, and sappan wood. AU the dyewoods are nearly £2 per ton 

 higher than last year. 



Common Spanish fustic which in September, 1852, was only 

 £3 10s. per ton, now fetches £6 10s. in the Liverpool market ; 

 and there is a great demand for all kinds of dyewoods. Tampico 

 and Puerto Cabello fustic are now worth £6 10s. to £7 the ton, 

 Cuba ditto, £9 10s. to £10. 



Sappan wood is £4 higher than last year ; barwood has risen 

 cent per cent ; logwoods are £2 per ton higher. 



The following were the prices of the different dyewoods in the 

 Liverpool market, on the 1st September, 1853, per ton : — 



Tampico 



Puerto Cabello 



Cuba 



Logwood, Jamaica 



St. Domingo 



Campeachy, direct 



Indirect and Tobasco 



Nicaragua Wood. 



Rio de la Hache, solid 



,, small 



Lima 



Barwood, Angola 



Gaboon 



Camwood 



Eed Sanders Wood 



Sappan Wood , 



E-ED Saistdees wood (Pterocarptos santalinus), which is havd and 

 of a bright garnet red color, is employed to dye a lasting reddish 

 brown on wool. It only yields its color to ether or alcohol. The 

 tree, which is a lofty one, is common about Madras and other 

 parts of India ; it is also indigenous to Ceylon, Timor, and other 

 Eastern islands. The exports of this wood from Madras in one 

 year have been nearly 2,000 tons. 



The imports of red Sanders wood from Calcutta and Bombay 

 chiefly into London are to the extent of 700 or 800 tons a year, 

 worth £6 to £9 per ton. 



Of EusTic we import from 1,500 to 2,000 tons annually. "We 

 derive our supplies from Brazil, Tampico, Puerto Cabello, Cuba, 

 and Jamaica. The best is obtained from Cuba; for while the 



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