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"We have some molasses to eat with it, produced from the sap of the gomuti-palm."— In the Eastern Seas
The last two are commonly known as sugar canes, and they are generally considered as varieties of a single species, S. officinarum_, which is now widely spread over different parts of the world Some curious specimens of palm sugars were exhibited at the Great Exhibition of 1851, among others,--gomuti palm sugar (_Arenga saccharifera_) from Java; date palm sugar, from the Deccan; nipa sugar, from the stems of Nipa fruticans_, and sugar from the fleshy flowers of Bassia latifolia_,--an East Indian tree Among the other sugars shown were beet root sugar, maple sugar, date sugar, from Dacca, sugar from the butter tree (_Bassia butyracea_), produced in the division of Rohekkund, in India; and sugar candy, crystallized by the natives of Calcutta and other parts of India Sugar and molasses from the grape, were also shown from Spain, Tunis and the Zollverein Sugar, or sugar candy, has been made in China from very remote antiquity, and large quantities have been exported from India, in all ages, whence it is most probable that it found its way to Rome The principal impurities to be sought for in cane sugar are inorganic matter, water, molasses, farina, and grape, or starch sugar.— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise ; Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, ;c.; of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, ;c;.
Exhibition of 1851, among others, -- gomuti palm sugar (_Arenga saccharifera_) from Java; date palm sugar, from the Deccan; nipa sugar, from the stems of _Nipa fruticans_, and sugar from the fleshy flowers of _Bassia latifolia_, -- an East Indian tree.— The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.
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