THE INDIA REVIEW 
OF WORKS ON SCIENCE, 
AND 
JOURNAL OF FOREIGN SCIENCE AND THE ARTS, 
EMBRACING 
MINERALOGY, GEOLOGY, NATURAL HISTORY, PHYSICS, &c. 
REVIEW. 
Sugar, as to the probability of an im- 
provement in the cultivation and quality 
of, either through Europeans or Natives, 
in case of an increased demand, : from 
the report of the select commitees of 
the Houses of Lords and Commons, 
appointed to enquire into the present 
state of the affairs of the East India 
Company, 1830-31. 
BelVs Comparative View of the External 
Commerce of Bengal, during the years 
1834-35 1835-36, 106. 
A Treatise on the Cultivation of Sugar- 
canes, and the manufacture of Sugar ; 
comprehending instructions for plant- 
ing and saving the cane, expressing 
the juice, 8fc. 8fc. By W. Fitzmau- 
RiCE, many years a planter in the island 
of Jamaica, pp. 69, 1830. 
The nature and properties of the Sugar- 
cane, with practical directions for the 
improvement of its culture and the ma- 
nufacture of its products. By George 
Richardson Porter, Philadelphia, 
pp. 354, 1831. 
A Dictionary, Practical, Theoretical, and 
Historical, of Commerce and Commer- 
cial Navigation : illustrated with Maps 
and Plans. By J. R. McCulloch, 
Esa. Second Edition, Corrected 
throughout, and greatly enlarged : 
with a Supplement, supplying the 
deficiencies and bringing down the in- 
formation contained in the work to 
October, 1835. Qvo. pp. 1327- Long- 
man, Rees, Orme,Brown, Greene, 
AND Longman, London, 1835. 
(Continued from page 425.^ 
Having considered the history of sugar- 
cane, we proceed to other important par- 
ticulars regarding the various parts of the 
cane, and their development. Saccharum 
officinarum is a genus of the triandria di- 
gynia class ; it has no empalement, but a 
woolly down, longer than the flower 
which encloses it : the flower is bivalve ; the 
valves are oblong, acute-pointed, concave, 
and chaffy ; it has three hair-like stamina, 
the length of the valves, terminated by oblong 
summits, and an awl-shaped germen, sup- 
porting two rough styles, crowned by single 
stigmas ; the germen becomes an oblong, 
acute-pointed seed, invested by the valves. 
Bruce says that the cane may be raised from 
seeds in this country. It is, however, easily 
propagated by cuttings, and multiplies itself 
surprisingly. The torrid zone is most favor- 
able to its production, but it may be cultivated 
as high as the 40® lat. The period at which 
it arrives at full maturity is from twelve to 
twenty months: there is, however, an Otahei- 
tan variety, which comes to maturity in ten 
months ; this is only in elevatedspots. In vale 
and low alluvial soils, where the land has not 
