TO EAST AND WEST INDIA PROPRIETORS, 
PLANTERS, COLONISTS, SETTLERS, AND OTHERS 
INTERESTED IN THE PRODUCTS OP TROPICAL CLIMATES. 
In demy 8 vo. with illustrative Plates, price 15s. cloth. 
THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF 
THE SUGAR CANE ; 
With Practical Directions for its Culture, and the Manufacture of its various Produces, 
detailing the improved Methods of Extracting, Boiling, Refining and Distilling ; also 
descriptions of the best Machinery, and Useful Directions for the general Management 
of Estates. 
BY GEORGE RICHARDSON PORTER. 
“ We can recommend the volume as a most valuable addition to the library of the 
home West India merchant, as well as that of the resident planter.” — Literary Gazette. 
“ We can conscientiously recommend this important and excellent work, not only to 
the attention of those more particularly interested in the subject, but of the public 
generally.” — Edinburgh Literary Journal. 
“ This is a most useful and interesting volume. The author appears fully qualified for 
the task he has undertaken, and has combined in his work such an amount of practical 
knowledge and scientific information, as cannot fail of proving advantageous to those for 
whose use it was written”' — Cheltenham Journal. 
“ The work before us contains such valuable scientific, and practical information, that 
we have no doubt it will find a place in the library of every planter and person connected 
with our sugar colonies.” — Monthly Magazine. 
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BY THE SAME AUTHOR, 
In demy 8 vo. with forty-five beautiful Botanical Plates, price 2 Is. 
THE TROPICAL AGRICULTURIST ; 
A Practical Treatise on the Cultivation and Management of various Productions 
suitable to Tropical Climates ; including Coffee, Cocoa, Cotton, Cinnamon, Cloves, 
Ginger, Gums, Indigo, Mace, Myrrh, Nutmegs, Olives, Pepper, Rhubarb, Sago, 
Tea, Tobacco, and other products of the East and West Indies, &c., capable of ad 
vant'ageous production in the various Colonies belonging to Great Britain. 
“ This valuable volume opens to Colonial Residents such a mine of hitherto concealed 
weulth that every Proprietor, Emigrant, or person interested in the success of an Emi- 
grant Friend, ought to procure a copy, as their surest guide to fortune.”— London Review. 
„ This is really one of the most valuable works that has issued from the press for 
, ears p> ery f r i e nd to our inestimable Colonies should purchase and disseminate 
Mr Porter’s Work, that the Colonies of New South Wales and Southern Africa, &c. 
mav learn how to enrich their delightful countries by the Tropical Agriculturist.” 
J London Gazette. 
Just published, in 2 volumes, post 8«o., price 21*. 
THE BABOO; 
AND OTHER TALES DESCRIPTIVE OF SOCIETY IN INDIA. 
<i "We conscientiously and heartily recommend this very superior work to the notice of 
the public. It is a delightful Indian Companion to the Don Quixote of Spain— The Gil 
Bias of France — and the Hajji Baba of Persia ; and quite equal to them all. 
« 'phis Work is second to none in graphic powers. The Baboo himself is a perfect 
study. It is founded on facts and true to nature, and altogether a work of no common 
order. — Metropolitan. 
SMITH, ELDER AND CO., CORNHILL, LONDON. 
