arious wheats, 222
on the American breadstuffs, 226

Beet root sugar produced on the Continent, 144
cost of producing, 189, 204

Beet, varieties of the root, 191

Belgians, large consumers of coffee, 40

Belgium, production of beet root sugar in, 200

Benares, production of indigo in, 475

Ben, oil of, 523

Bencoolen, pepper grown in, 423
spice culture in, 412

Bengal, cost of cultivating sugar in, 189
indigo, 464
introduction of the coffee tree into, 40
production of indigo in, 475
production of opium in, 580
rice, 296

Bennet on Ceylon, 316

Bennett (Dr.), description of gambier, 500

Berar, edible root of, 377

Berberry, a dye stuff, 442

Berbice, exports of coffee from, 73

Bergamot, essence of, 566

Berger's process of making rice starch, 344

Bermuda arrowroot, statistics of, 353
mode of cultivating arrowroot, 346

Berry wax, 540

Betel leaf, 577

Bhoe Moong, the Indian name for the ground nut, 515

Bhull rice lands, 293

Biggah, distinction between this land measure, 471

_Bignonia Chica_, 444

Bihai, 320

Bitter cassava, 331

_Bixa orellana_, 447

Black ginger, 415
pepper, statistics of, 428
tea, imports of the last fifteen years, 82
mode of manufacturing, 112

Blood tree, 625

Bollman (Prof.), on the potato rot, 359

Bolitus used as food, 377

Bonynge (Mr. F.) promotes tea culture in America, 97

_Borassus gomutus_, 315

Borneo, pepper produced in, 422

Bourbon, cacao grown in, 36
produce of rice in, 293

Bousa, an African beer, 308

Boussingault's analysis of wheat, 244

Boyams, food plant, 377

Bran, analysis of, 231

_Brassica oleracea_, oil from the seed, 539

Brazilian arrowroot, 330, 367, 369

Brazil, exports of coffee to America, 63
cost of producing sugar in, 189
culture of ginger, 418
production of coffee in, 40, 41, 63
introduction of the tea plant, 128
statistics of sugar production, 182
tobacco export from, 594
wood, 485

Bread fruit, 318, 330
made from millet, 306
nut of Jamaica, 319
stuffs of commerce, 217

Brick tea of Thibet, 92

British Guiana, coffee produced in, 73
West Indies, decline of coffee culture in, 40, 63, 67
exports of coffee from, 73

Brood-boon, 319

Bromelia Pinguin, fruit of, used for soap, 574

Broom corn, 307,