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the inner leaves to the top or bottom, that they 
may not ferment too much, and thereby cause 
13. “ At the end of that time I hope they will be 
ready for tying into ‘ hands’, or small bundles of 
five-and-twenty or thirty leaves in each. Then 
there will be nothing else to do but to pack the 
‘hands’ in boxes or hogsheads, and to send them 
away. 
“We shall have carried out our share of the work 
then; the rest must be done in the tobacco and 
cigar factories.” 
LOGWOOD. 
1. Some of our vegetable products are valued 
because of the dyes or colouring-matter that may 
be obtained from them. 
2. The seeds of the annatto, the root-stocks of the 
turmeric, and the leaves of the indigo plant are all 
useful for this purpose. But more important still, 
in Jamaica, is the value that is set upon logwood, 
on account of the rich dye that it gives. Large 
quantities of the wood are shipped from the island, 
especially from the parishes of Clarendon, St. 
Elizabeth, and St. Mary. 
3 . The dye is obtained from the heavy red heart- 
wood of the trees; and this is cut into logs of a 
