663 



Potato, information respecting, 10 



meal, syrup made from, 197 



the wUd, 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 



Fomme des Frairies, 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 tohacco, 615 



Poonac, as manure, 50 



549, 552, 561 



Pomegranate hark, 493, 495 

 Poonay oil, 511-13 

 Folygonum tinctorimn, 453 

 Pongamia glabra, 521 

 Fogostemon patchou^y, 573 

 Poppy, culture of, 581 



oil, \ised to adulterate olive, 



532 



. 509-10-11-18 



Folypodium crassifoHutn, 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 culture 

 in, 399 



Frosopis pallida^ 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, tohacco consumed hy, 696 



■ production of heet sugar in 



197-98 ' 

 Pruning coffee tree, 69 

 Psoralia, varieties of, 372 

 Fteris esculenta, 380 



Fterocarpus marsupium, 493 



santalinufi, 445 



species of, 507 



Pulping mill for coffee, 51 

 Purging nut, 625 

 Pulse, culture of, 312 

 Putchuk or Costus, 438 

 638 



Pimjauh, proposed culture of tea in, 

 101 



Fustnlatus moss, 486 

 Qually, an iron vessel for drying sago, 

 317 



Quarree, a Spanish land measure, ahout 



54 E i^'ish acres, 326 

 Q'^,iss:a ^:v ood,643 



Qi:£,5, a fermented Russian heverage, 



S(=S 



Quercitron, 443 



485 



Quercus tinctoria, 443, 485 

 saber, 504 



Quintal, the Spanish cwt., equal to 



10 If lbs. English, 

 Quinine, imports of, 636 



manufacture of, 635 



Quillai, bark of, used for soap, 574 

 Quinoa, 310 



species of, 507 



Railways, large consumption of oil for, 

 513 



Eamos (Mr.) his dessicating agent for 



sugar, 140, 162 

 Ramalina fufuracea, 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 



FapMs JlabeiliformiSj 314 

 Red pepper, 429 



— Sanders wood, 445 



— Sandal wood, 378 

 Feseda Intea, 452 

 Revenue from sugar, 143 

 Rhamnus, varieties of, 442 

 leaves of, used for tea in 



China, 105 

 RJtizaphora 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, 303 



