Vegetable Technology: A Contribution Towards a Bibliography of Economic Botany, with a Comprehensive Subject-index

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Index society, 1882 - Botany, Economic - 355 pages

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Page 17 - Medicinal Plants : Being descriptions, with original figures, of the Principal Plants employed in Medicine, and an account of their Properties and Uses.
Page 180 - Tropical Agriculture ; or, the Culture, Preparation, Commerce, and Consumption of the Principal Products of the Vegetable Kingdom, as furnishing Food, Clothing, Medicine, etc., and in their relation to the Arts and Manufactures; forming a practical treatise and Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, etc., of the various Substances obtained from Trees and Plants entering into the Husbandry of...
Page 153 - Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, medical, economical and agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with practical information on the useful properties of the trees, plants, and shrubs.
Page 153 - THE NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF THE SUGAR CANE ; With Practical Directions for the Improvement of its Culture, and the Manufacture of its Products. To which is added an additional Chapter on the MANUFACTURE OF SUGAR FROM BEET-ROOT.
Page 127 - Arbustrum Americanum: The American grove, or, An alphabetical catalogue of forest trees and shrubs, natives of the American United States, arranged according to the LInnaean system.
Page 181 - Woburnensis, or an account of the results of experiments on the produce and nutritive qualities of different grasses and other plants used as the food of the more valuable domestic animals : instituted by John, Duke of Bedford.
Page 205 - Dendrologia Britannica, or, Trees and Shrubs that will live in the open air of Britain throughout the year.
Page 11 - AN ACCOUNT OF THE CULTIVATION AND MANUFACTURE of TEA in CHINA: derived from Personal Observation during an Official Residence in that Country of upwards of Twenty years ; and illustrated by the best Authorities, Chinese as well as European.
Page 12 - VEGETABLE MATERIA MEDICA of the United States ; or Medical Botany : containing a Botanical, General, and Medical History of Medicinal Plants, indigenous to the United States ; illustrated by coloured Engravings, made after original Drawings from Nature, done by the Author.

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