THE VEGETABLE KINGDOM. 



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telligent hand of man, add to the wealth of nations. Thus 

 the French pine spreads its treasures over the once sterile 

 heaths of Bordeaux. From incisions made in it flows a 



192. Combustion of the Vapors of Bastard Dittany: Dictamnus Fraxmella (Persoon). 



turpentine, which the resin - gatherers, active as monkeys, 

 collect in numberless cups suspended to the trunks of the 

 trees. 1 



1 The resin is extracted when the maritime pine has reached the age of twenty 



