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The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom - Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on by P. L. Simmonds
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INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

Objects of the work.

Prof. Solly on the demand for a practical book on raw
materials.

Objects of the Society of Arts and Great Exhibition.

Necessity for an attention to the culture of the minor
staples of the soil.

New objects of industry worthy the attention of
Science.

Principal part of our homeward commerce composed of raw
materials from the Vegetable Kingdom.

Mutual dependence of countries on Commerce for the
supply of their wants.

System of arrangement of subjects adopted by the
author.

Many articles of commerce omitted for want of space.

Those of tropical and sub-tropical regions chiefly
discussed.