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CROPS: Potatoes, Yams, Cocos, or Eddoes, Sweet Potatoes, Cassava or Manioc. NEW TUBEROUS PLANTS recommended as substitutes for the potato. MISCELLANEOUS FOOD PLANTS. LICHENS and MOSSES. FERNS. SECTION III.--SPICES, AROMATIC CONDIMENTS, AND FRAGRANT WOODS. CINNAMON. Limited range of the culture in Ceylon. Analysis of the soil most favorable to the tree. Peeling. Various kinds of bark; commercial classification, distinguishing properties of good cinnamon; suitability of the Straits Settlement for cinnamon plantations; oil of cinnamon; statistics and exports from Ceylon, and prices realised; reduction of the duty; extent of land under cultivation with the tree; progress of the culture in Java; exports thence to Holland. CASSIA BARK: species from whence derived; imports, consumption and prices. Cassia Buds. Cassia Oil. CANELLA ALBA. CASCARILLA BARK. CLOVES: description and varieties of the tree. Produce in Java. Introduction into the West Indies. Progress of the culture in Pinang and Singapore. The Clove plantations of Zanzibar. Imports and consumption of the United Kingdom. The NUTMEG: Botanical description. Dr. Oxley's account of the cultivation and management of a plantation; enemies of the tree. Produce and returns. Preparation of the nuts for market. Statistics of culture in the Straits Settlements. Memorandum on the duties on nutmegs. Exports of nutmegs from Singapore and Java. Imports into the United Kingdom, and consumption of wild and cultivated nutmegs and mace. GINGER: description and consumption of. Commercial distinction between black and white ginger. East and West India ginger, directions for cultivation. Shipments from Jamaica. Comparison between the imports from the East and from the West. Total annual imports and consumption. GALANGALE ROOT. CARDAMOMS; plants from which derived. Grains of Paradise. Meleguetta, or Guinea pepper. PEPPER: description of the vine; range of the plant. Production of the World. The culture declining in Java. Extent of the production in Singapore. Exports from Ceylon. Its introduction into the Mauritius. Shipments from Singapore. Imports and consumption of the United Kingdo
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