The World's Encyclopedia of Wonders and Curiosities

Everything a Victorian found astonishing, gathered into one enormous volume — burning springs and buried cities, freaks of storm and flood, the habits of bees and the manners of nations, filed under headings like “Curiosities Respecting Man.”

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Chapter XXXV

CURIOSITIES RESPECTING VEGETABLES (Continued). ..

Curious Plant near the Cape of Good Hope-The Mandrake-Changeable Flower-Chinese Method of Preparing Tea-Antiquity of Sugar-Curious Effects of Cinchona, or Peruvian Bark-Curious Particulars of a Pound Weight of Cotton-wool-Animated Stalk-Animal Flower

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