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degiees and modes of washing the pulp, much also depends as to tlie quality and 

 beauty of the paper. Mucilage obtained from boiling rice, or from a root called 

 oreni, one of the mallow tribe, is afterwards added to the pulp. The i)apcr is 

 finished much after the European mode, except that stalks of rushes are used, 

 mstead of brass wires." '^riie article thus made, constitutes the India or China 

 paper used by engravers for taking proofs, and by chemists for filters. 



In Europe and America, this species is solely considered as an ornamental 

 tree; and, from i*s hardihood and rapidity of growth, and its singularly beauti- 

 ful, light, open foliage, which is attacked by no insect, it is rendered a most 

 desirable object for shading streets and avenues. 



