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... plantain tribe have a fleshy rooting stem , which is eatable . At the root - stock of the arrowhead ( Sagittaria sagittifolia ) there is a tuber composed almost entirely of starch . Martius com- pares the fecula of these tubercles to ...
... plantain tribe have a fleshy rooting stem , which is eatable . At the root - stock of the arrowhead ( Sagittaria sagittifolia ) there is a tuber composed almost entirely of starch . Martius com- pares the fecula of these tubercles to ...
Page 59
... plantain fibre , they will be fit for the finest descrip- tions of note - paper . The whole plant is of commercial value . In Madras the silk cotton of the pod is col- lected , in Bombay the fibre of the bark is used instead of flax ...
... plantain fibre , they will be fit for the finest descrip- tions of note - paper . The whole plant is of commercial value . In Madras the silk cotton of the pod is col- lected , in Bombay the fibre of the bark is used instead of flax ...
Page 71
... plantain , and some kinds of grasses , dyed , to form the border pat- terns , & c . In Central Africa cloths are made of the fibres of the wine - palm ( Raphia vinifera ) , mixed with cotton , by the tribes tributary to Benin , on the ...
... plantain , and some kinds of grasses , dyed , to form the border pat- terns , & c . In Central Africa cloths are made of the fibres of the wine - palm ( Raphia vinifera ) , mixed with cotton , by the tribes tributary to Benin , on the ...
Page 81
... Plantain is sometimes so abundant and cheap in many of our colonies , that it might , if cut and dried in its green state , be exported with advantage . It is in this unripe state that it is so largely used by the peasantry of this ...
... Plantain is sometimes so abundant and cheap in many of our colonies , that it might , if cut and dried in its green state , be exported with advantage . It is in this unripe state that it is so largely used by the peasantry of this ...
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... plantain meal cannot be got into this state unless by mixing it up with water to form a stiff dough , and then boiling it in . shapes or bound in cloths . Plantain meal is prepared by stripping off the husk of the plantain , slicing the ...
... plantain meal cannot be got into this state unless by mixing it up with water to form a stiff dough , and then boiling it in . shapes or bound in cloths . Plantain meal is prepared by stripping off the husk of the plantain , slicing the ...
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Page 163 - ... and of which an unlimited supply may be obtained. I will now enumerate a few of the different substances which I have examined for the purpose of discovering a proper substitute for rags. Rags containing about 50 per cent. of vegetable fibre, mixed with wool or silk, are regarded by the paper-makers as useless to them, and several thousand tons are yearly burned in the manufacture of prussiate of potash. By a simple process, which consists in boiling these rags in caustic alkali, the animal fibre...
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