Museum in the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, [in London], 1850. 'The objects are exhibited in cases fixed to the walls, and in a double row in the centre, all ticketed in plain a character to interest the least educated person; and the raw and manufactured produce of the vegetable the specimens in all its stages of perfection; flax, from the rude stem to its manufacture into the most costly cloths from New Zealand, China, Ceylon, the Sandwich Islands, and some of very , made of grasses, palm fibres, an
Museum in the Royal Botanic Gardens, at Kew, [in London], 1850. 'The objects are exhibited in cases fixed to the walls, and in a double row in the centre, all ticketed in plain a character to interest the least educated person; and the raw and manufactured produce of the vegetable the specimens in all its stages of perfection; flax, from the rude stem to its manufacture into the most costly cloths from New Zealand, China, Ceylon, the Sandwich Islands, and some of very , made of grasses, palm fibres, and paper mulberry; India-rubber and gutta , of which many varieties are almost unknown in Europe; coffee, sugar, spices, gums, resins, drugs, and woods for dyeing; seeds, leaves, and roots used in sea-weeds, used as food, both in savage and civilized '. From "Illustrated London News", 1850.
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