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H.M. Stationery Office, 1887 - Botany
 

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Page 1 - ... purposes. It is, however, liable to so many fluctuations, and the prices generally are so low, that it has never received serious attention in British colonies, and hence few, if any, plantations have been exclusively devoted in such colonies to the annatto plant. The annatto of commerce is practically a forest product obtained from wild or semi-wild plants, and the supply has only kept pace with the demand. Of late years a slight revival has taken place in the use of annatto, especially in America,...
Page 9 - Dr. Roxburgh describes the plant as common on the jungly salt soils along the coasts, growing under the bushes, and easily propagated on almost every soil, from the slips which issue in great abundance from the roots, requiring little or no care, and not requiring to be renewed often, if at all, as the plant is perennial.
Page 4 - Copy of a Report of a Committee of the Honourable the Privy Council for Canada, approved by His Excellency the Governor-General, on the 5th November, 1880.
Page 18 - The atmospheric conditions which favour the progress of the disease are heavy dews or rains followed by warm, moist, calm •weather, and the absence of direct sunshine and cold winds. In favourable weather the progress of the disease is very rapid.
Page 219 - Kachins ; since his flight a regular expenditure in presents to the tsawbwas has become necessary in order to keep the amount of transit dues at a reasonable level. Whatever may be the poll-tax paid on Indiarubber coming down to Mogaung the Chinese manager and the Kachin owner bear the loss in equal shares. The Kachin, however, is amply compensated by being housed and fed at the expense of the Chinese during his stay in Mogaung. The circumstances of the past year have been very favourable to the...
Page 138 - Potages d"un curieux histoire, culture et usages de 100 plantes comestibles peu connues ou inconnues, par A.
Page 127 - Edinburgh sorts, and not so stronggrowing while under glass. "After we had satisfied ourselves that we could make nothing of ipecacuanha, from a commercial point of view, we put all the plants out in the open, under shade, and let them take their chance. By this time we had all the sorts mixed up together ; and as we had originally at least ten Edinburgh plants for each one of the Kew sort, and the Edinburgh lot had, besides, been much the stronger growers under glass, the Kew plants formed less...
Page 9 - ... both of which are common in the sandy tracts " of the Colony. They are astringent and sourish in taste on account of " the acidulated alkaline salt with which they seem to be impregnated. " The expressed juice of the succulent leaves taken internally checks " dysentery and acts as a mild diuretic, while it is also, for its antiseptic " property, used as an excellent gargle in malignant sore throat, violent " salivation and aphtha?, or in the form of a lotion in burns and scalds.
Page 2 - The imports to Calcutta are comparatively insignificant, being probably less than 300 tons per annum. It is stated in the Kew report that a labourer working under pressure "can clean nearly 20 Ib.
Page 9 - I AM directed by the Secretary of State for the Colonies to transmit to you, for your information...

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