Chapter D

Date-tree, description, cultivation, and management of, 246, 247
----, fruit, wood, pith, and leaves, uses of, 247, 248
Deals, yellow and red, 233
Dragon's-blood-tree, description and uses of, 98, 99
Dulse, description, preparation, and use of, 273
Dutch pink, from what prepared, 136

E.
Ebony, description and uses of, 265
Eschalote. See Shallot.
Elder, common, wood, bark, leaves, flowers, berries, &c. uses of, 83
Elm-trees, timber, bark, and leaves, uses of, 73
Endive, culture and uses of, 199

F.
Fan-palm, description and uses of, 98
Fennel leaves, stalks, seeds, and roots, uses of, 80
Fern, description and uses of, 268
Ferula, stalks of, how anciently used, 78
Fig-trees and figs, description, cultivation, and uses of, 267
Filbert, 228
Fir, Scots, description of, timber and bark, uses of, 232, 233
----, turpentine, resin, tar and pitch, how obtained from, 232, 233
----, spruce, description and uses of, 235
Flax, description of, cultivation, preparation, and uses of, 85
----, Oil made from the seeds of, 86
Flummery, what it is, and how made, 23
Fox-glove, description and uses of, 169
Frontignac wine, 66
Fructification of vegetables, 1
Fucus, bladder, description and use of, 271
----, eatable, winged, 272
----, sweet, and red palmate, 273
Furze, uses of, 182

G.
Galls, use of, 223
Gamboge, description of, how obtained, and uses of, 135
Garlic, description and uses of, 89
Gentian, description and uses of, 74, 75
Gerkins, 207
Gilead, balm or balsam of, how obtained, and uses of, 108
Gin, with what flavoured, 257
Ginger, description, cultivation, preparation, and uses of, 7
Glass, broken, how to cement, 89
Gooseberries, uses of, 61
Gorze, uses of, 182
Grafting of fruit-trees, how performed, and use of, 147
Grapes, uses of, 69, 70
Grass, sweet-scented vernal, uses of, 30
----, cotton, meadow, fox-tail, and Timothy or meadow cat's tail, 31
----, Fiorin or Orcheston long, 32
----, meadow soft, or Yorkshire white canary, purple melic, and reed
meadow, 33
----, smooth-stalked meadow, and annual meadow, 34
----, crested dog's tail, sheep's fescue, hard fescue, and flote fescue,
35
----, rye or ray, 37
----, couch or squitch, 38
Grits or groats, what they are, 23
Guava, description and uses of, 137
Guiacum, gum, how obtained, and uses of, 127
Gum arabic, how and whence obtained, and uses of, 261
----, Senegal, 262
----, Sandarach, 257

H.
Hazel nut tree and fruit, uses of, 228
Heath, common, stalks, tops, flowers, leaves, and seeds, uses of, 113
Hemp, description of, how cultivated and prepared for use, 249
----, fimble, karle, or seed, 249
----, seed and stalks, uses of, 249
Heps, conserve of, 151
Hermitage wine, 66
Hickory nut, 227
Hock wine, 68
Holly-tree, wood, leaves, berries, and bark, uses of, 14
Hops, description and mode of culture of, 250, 251
----, how picked, dried, and prepared for use, and uses of, 251
----, substitutes for, in brewing, 43, 135
Hornbeam, description and uses of, 229
Horse-radish, description and uses of, 172

I. J.
Iceland lichen, description, preparation, and use of, 271
Indian corn. See Maize.
Indian rubber-tree, description of, 240
----, how obtained and prepared for use, and uses of, 241
Indigo, description, cultivation, preparation, and uses of, 188, 189
Ipecacuanha, description, history, and use of, 62, 63
Iris, common, description and uses of, 18
Jack-fruit, description and uses of, 205, 206
Jalap, description of, whence obtained, and uses of, 43
Jasmine, oil of, how prepared, 12
Jesuit's bark. See Peruvian bark.
Jesuit's drops, from what made, 130
Juniper, berries, wood, bark, and gum, uses of, 256

K.
Kale, Dorsetshire, 176
----, Sea, description, cultivation, and uses of, 171
Kelp, preparation, value, and uses of, 271