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_Frontispiece to Vol. II._

USEFUL KNOWLEDGE:

OR

_A FAMILIAR ACCOUNT_

OF THE

VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS

OF

Nature,

MINERAL, VEGETABLE, AND ANIMAL,

WHICH ARE CHIEFLY EMPLOYED FOR THE USE OF MAN.

_Illustrated with numerous Figures, and intended as a Work both of Instruction and Reference._

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BY THE

REV. WILLIAM BINGLEY, AM. FLS.

LATE OF PETERHOUSE, CAMBRIDGE, AND AUTHOR OF ANIMAL BIOGRAPHY.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. II. VEGETABLES.

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_FOURTH EDITION._

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LONDON: PRINTED FOR BALDWIN, CRADOCK, AND JOY; HARVEY AND DARTON; AND C. AND J. RIVINGTON.

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1825.

EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES

OF THE

_SECOND VOLUME_.

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FRONTISPIECE: PLATE I.

Fig. 1. Olive. 2. Ginger plant. 3. Black pepper. 4. Cardamom plant. 5. Sugar cane. 6. Saffron. 7. Scammony plant. 8. Jalap plant. 9. Coffee-tree. 10. Peruvian bark tree. 11. Tobacco plant. 12. Annual capsicum.

PLATE II.

13. Wheat. 14. Oats. 15. Barley. 16. Rye. 17. Vernal grass. 18. Cotton grass. 19. Bull-rush. 20. Meadow fox-tail grass. 21. Cat's-tail grass. 22. Fiorin, or Orcheston long grass. 23. Canary grass. 24. Purple melic grass.

PLATE III.

25. Meadow soft grass. 26. Reed meadow grass. 27. Smooth-stalked meadow grass. 28. Annual meadow grass. 29. Crested dog's-tail grass. 30. Hard fescue grass. 31. Flote fescue grass. 32. Sheep's fescue grass. 33. Common reed. 34. Sea matweed. 35. Rye, or Ray grass. 36. Couch, or Squitch grass.

PLATE IV.

Fig.

37. Flax. 38. Socotrine Aloe. 39. Rice. 40. Cinnamon-tree. 41. Camphor-tree. 42. Cashew Nut tree. 43. Logwood-tree. 44. Mahogany-tree. 45. All-spice, or Pimento-tree. 46. Almond-tree. 47. Pomegranate. 48. Caper plant.

PLATE V.

49. Tea-tree. 50. Clove-tree. 51. Tamarind-tree. 52. Cotton plant. 53. Cowhage plant. 54. Chocolate-tree. 55. Orange-tree. 56. Lemon-tree. 57. Bread-fruit-tree. 58. Maize, or Indian corn. 59. Cucumber. 60. Indian rubber tree.

PLATE VI.

61. Common elm. 62. Broad-leaved elm. 63. Alder. 64. Beech-tree. 65. Sweet chesnut. 66. Horse chesnut. 67. Hazel. 68. Oak. 69. Walnut-tree. 70. Sycamore. 71. Plane-tree. 72. Mulberry-tree.

PLATE VII.

73. Hornbeam. 74. White poplar. 75. Black poplar. 76. Flowering ash. 77. Lignum-vitæ tree. 78. Quassia-tree. 79. Ash-tree. 80. Nutmeg-tree. 81. Hop plant. 82. Hemp. 83. Fig-tree. 84. Morell.

_Pl. 2._

_Pl. 3._

_Pl. 4._

_Pl. 5._

_Pl. 6._

_Pl. 7._