The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom

Peter Lund Simmonds

Nearly everything in a nineteenth-century pantry or workshop began as a plant. Peter Simmonds catalogues the grains, roots, fibers, dyes, and drugs that commerce drew from the vegetable world, section by exhaustive section. A vast reference on how plants clothed, fed, and supplied an empire. Trace the world's trade back to the plants that made it.