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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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Manufacture and extent of the trade in Singapore.

The bread-fruit tree.

Kafir bread.

The PLANTAIN and BANANA; various products of these
palms.

STARCH-PRODUCING PLANTS investigated.

Characters of starch from different plants.

Tenacity and clearness of jellies; per centage of
starch yielded, and produce of plant per acre; their
meal as articles of export.

Indian Corn starch.

Rice starch.

ARROWROOT: East and West India, culture and statistics
of.

ROOT CROPS: Potatoes, Yams, Cocos, or Eddoes, Sweet
Potatoes, Cassava or Manioc.

NEW TUBEROUS PLANTS recommended as substitutes for the
potato.