. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE SUGAR CANE. 235 mats, for, according to Thunberg, tliey are pre- cisely of the same dimensions throughout all parts of the kingdom, with the exception of those in the imperial palace of Jeddo. The common dimensions were two yards long and one broad, with a narrow blue or black border. They make a lighter sort of matting of the same mate
. A history of the vegetable kingdom; embracing the physiology of plants, with their uses to man and the lower animals, and their application in the arts, manufactures, and domestic economy. Illus. by several hundred figures. Botany; Botany, Economic; 1855. THE SUGAR CANE. 235 mats, for, according to Thunberg, tliey are pre- cisely of the same dimensions throughout all parts of the kingdom, with the exception of those in the imperial palace of Jeddo. The common dimensions were two yards long and one broad, with a narrow blue or black border. They make a lighter sort of matting of the same materials, which is used as window blinds, and to protect the transparent paper which forma a substitute for glass. Of some harder species of rush they even make shoes for their horses, which come up to the pastern joint, and cover the hoof. Rushes and mats are extensively used in many eastern countries. The sugar sent home from the Mauri- tius is contained in bags made of matting, which are thick, strong, and very durable. CHAP. XXVII. THE SUGAR CANE, BAMBOO, &0. Of the same natural family as the cerealia, and possessing quaUties little less valuable than the various kinds of grains constituting that family, is the sugar cane. Sugar, as we have already stated, is a substance found in the juices of a great many vegetables, and in its chemical composition is very nearly the same as the farina of corn. It is a grateful and nutritious sub- stance, and from having once been esteemed as a luxury, is now almost from its universal use, looked upon as a necessary of civilized life. The Sugar Cane (saccliarum officinanim), belongs to the class triandria and order digynia. The Sugar Cane. of Linnseus. Its root is perennial, fibrous, and the stem simple, knotted, or undivided, ijoihte^, and smooth. It is two inches in diameter, and from eight to eighteen and twenty feet in length; the number of joints varies from thirty to eighty. The leaves are long, amplexial, and pointed. The flowers a
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