. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. i:y fermiisioH ol Iht - Caiuula " Snispafet BREAKING NEW GROUND INTRODUCTION j!!f n)r^f f', ''â¢''"''' â ''^ "'' ''"'"''' ^""^ "'â S>-C'-^t interest to man, as upon tluMn lie is dependent for ius very existence, Lis clothing, his iiome, his means of locomotion, and many plant hfe. \\ heat, nee, millets, oats
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. i:y fermiisioH ol Iht - Caiuula " Snispafet BREAKING NEW GROUND INTRODUCTION j!!f n)r^f f', ''â¢''"''' â ''^ "'' ''"'"''' ^""^ "'â S>-C'-^t interest to man, as upon tluMn lie is dependent for ius very existence, Lis clothing, his iiome, his means of locomotion, and many plant hfe. \\ heat, nee, millets, oats, , and the other cereals, on one or other of Inch every indivKlnal of both the most primitive and tlie most nation, depends for Ins sustenance, xvould disap{,ear, together with potatoes, vams, cassava or manioc and all the important starch-producing plants. Tiiere would be no fruits or vegetab'es ⢠tea coffee, cocoa, and sugar would vanish; tobacco and many of the cliief drugs cc^ise nrln ,-?"" because tliere would be no ndm-u bber for balls and tyres, no wood for bats, golf sticks, and rac,iuets,and leather could no ongcr be aimed. Ctton and linen woukl go, and wool, hair, and silk would be the onh- hbres for the manufacture of cloths and other There would be no wines or spirits, in tact hfe as we know it at present would come to a standstill. Supposing, however, tliat man could m a world containing no plants, to what extent could he manufacture, with all the assistance modern science affords liim, th. -ubstances necessarv for his life "^ In spite of he enormous strides which science, and chemical scii^nce, has made,' man I'ould not su,,port It is true that one of th,. commercial world has recentlv been profoundly by the artihcial of indigo. Another secti(Mi is consKlermg the situation created by clu-mists having discovered how to
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