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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Hints for the cultivator. Division of zones, and
countries lying within each, with their range of temperature. Table of climate; duration and production of the principal cultivated plants. SECTION I.--DRIED LEAVES, SEEDS, AND OTHER SUBSTANCES USED IN THE PREPARATION OF POPULAR DIETETIC BEVERAGES _Cacao_ or _Cocoa_. Varieties and description of the tree. Mode of cultivation in the Colombian Republics. Enemies of the tree. Expenses of a plantation in Jamaica. Cultivation in Trinidad and St. Lucia. Statistics and consumption. _Coffee_. Home consumption and revenue of coffee. Chicory largely substituted for; history of the fiscal |
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