Tropical Agriculture: A Treatise on the Culture, Preparation, Commerce and Consumption of the Principal Products of the Vegetable KingdomE. & F. N. Spon, 1889 - 539 頁 |
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acres annually Arnaboldi Assam average beans beetroot Bengal berries boiling Brazil British cacao cane cent Ceylon chiefly China climate coast coconut coffee coffee trees colony colour commerce consumption copra corn countries crop cultivation culture cwts date palm density of juice districts dried estates estimated Europe exports extracted fecula feet fibre Fiji flavour fruit gallons goor grain green grow grown growth guarana husk important inches increased India indigo island Jamaica Java kernel kilogrammes kilos kinds labour land leaf leaves length of joint maize manufacture manure Martinique maté Mauritius mills Mocha molasses months native nearly nuts obtained palm Percentage of trash piculs plantations planters pounds produce province pulp quantity rice roots sago season seed shipments shipped soil sorghum species stands drought starch sugar sugar-cane syrup tons Trinidad United Kingdom varieties West yellow yield
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第 334 頁 - This valuable plant has attracted a great deal of attention during the last few years, and has been highly recommended as a fodder crop.
第 392 頁 - The olive, in the western world, followed the progress of peace, of which it was considered as the symbol. Two centuries after the foundation of Rome, both Italy and Africa were strangers to that useful plant : it was naturalized in those countries ; and at length carried into the heart of Spain and Gaul. The timid errors of the ancients, that it required a certain degree of heat, and could only flourish in the neighborhood of the sea, were insensibly exploded by industry and experience.38 4.
第 311 頁 - The great staple of the country, as, indeed, of the American continent, was maize, or Indian corn, which grew freely along the valleys, and up the steep sides of the Cordilleras to the high level of the table-land. The Aztecs were as curious in its preparation, and as well intruded in its manifold uses, as the most expert New England housewife.
第 95 頁 - They are tossed about in this manner, and slightly beat or patted with the hands, for a considerable space of time. At length, when they become soft and flaccid, they are thrown in heaps, and allowed to lie in this state for about an hour, or perhaps a little longer. When examined at the end of this time, they appear to have undergone a slight change in colour, are soft and moist, and emit a fragrant smell.
第 96 頁 - The leaves having now lost a large portion of their moisture, and having become considerably reduced in size, are removed into the factory. They are put a second time into the roasting-pan for three or four minutes, and taken out and rolled as before.
第 95 頁 - Having been thrown again into the pan, a slow and steady charcoal fire is kept up, and the leaves are kept in rapid motion by the hands of workmen. Sometimes they are thrown upon the rattan-table and rolled a second time. In about an hour, or an hour and a half, the leaves are well dried, and their colour has become fixed, — that is, there is no longer any danger of their becoming black.
第 511 頁 - It is very thin and of a light-straw colour, of very little flavour, and that evanescent. Shoots exposed during growth to the direct rays of the sun, have their bark more acrid and spicy than the bark of those which grow under a shade. A marshy soil rarely produces good cinnamon, its texture, under this circumstance, being coarse-grained and spongy, while it possesses very little aroma.
第 94 頁 - Tea. — When the leaves are brought in from the plantations they are spread out upon large bamboo mats or trays, and are allowed to lie in this state for a considerable time.
第 387 頁 - Indians prepare an annotta, greatly superior to that which is brought to us, of a bright, shining red colour, almost equal to carmine. For this purpose, instead of steeping and fermenting the seeds in water, they rub them with the hands, previously dipped in oil, till the pulp comes off and is reduced to a...
第 518 頁 - ... it is passed through a fanner, bagged, and is ready for shipment. The term sometimes used to denote the in-gathering of the crop is not picking, but "breaking...