In the home market three kinds of cardamoms are found under the curious names of “shorts,” “short-longs,” and “long-longs.” Shorts are capsules from a quarter to half an inch long and a quarter of an inch broad, and the longest of the long-longs is about one inch in length.
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● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. ○ In several places the punctuation of numbers were undecided in meaning. They were changed to have the most-likely meaning. (Pages 57 - “1 4-10”, 116 - “133 1-3”). ○ On page 74, the table “Chemical composition of Capsicum annum” was reformatted so that “Seed”, “Pod” and “Whole Fruit” were column headings. ○ In the illustration facing page 24, the caption “Fig. 23. MAIZE STARCH” was corrected to “Fig. 25. MAIZE STARCH”. ○ On page 158, the reference to “rough, hairy seed (Fig. 5)” was corrected to “(Fig. 4)”. ○ In the illustration facing page 80, the caption “5 Sargon” was corrected to “5 Saigon”. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ Text in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_); text in bold by “equal” signs (=bold=). ○ Chemical formulæ are written with a notation that indicates some numbers are subscripts. For example: in H_{ 2}O the _{ 2} part means the ‘2’ is a subscript.
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