The vegetable productions of the Philippines are very numerous.  Rice is grown in great quantities.  What is known as Manilla hemp is an article of much value.  It is obtained from the fibre of a species of plantain. It, can only be exported from the port of Manilla.  Indigo, coffee, sugar, cotton, and tobacco, are grown in abundance; indeed, were the resources of the islands fully developed, they would prove some of the richest in the world.  But it may truly be said, that where Spaniards rule there a blight is sure to fall.