The fibre plants of India, Africa, and our colonies. A treatise on rheea, plantain, pine apple, jute, African and China grass, and New Zealand flax (phormium tenax), and on the cultivation, preparation, and cottonizing of home-grown and continental flax and hemp fitted for spinning on the existing cotton machinery, and also on silk, worsted and flax spinning machinery, with full instructions on the method of preparing, spinning and weaving, by the patented machines and process of the author
Dickson, James Hill