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one of the few which wili papgersially stand sea-winds, and a 
iderable amount of salt in the soil. . 
~ () re ‘deal tree to plant along river banks, to avoid erosion 
of the soil. 
valued and abundant beverage, also a sort of honey, which all 
prove the great richness in saccharine substance of our palm. 
According to the historian of the Islands, Don José de V po 
lavijo, a single palm yields a barrel of palm honey, yr 
ing the concentrated syrup obtained by heating the palm 
Don Pedro del Castillo, who wrote his history of the Islands in 
1706, states that the Guanches (Aborigines) of Gomera, before the 
Spanish conquest of the islands, were in the habit of tapping a 
thousands of palms in that island. If this be true it woul 
among other things for the fact of s hay 
a long time before he discovered ¢ 
om time immemorial an object 
oe date ae Dr. Perez suspects, must have been imported 
m the i i i 
ged partridge, unknown 12 
the islands before the raids of the Spanigh ids, and also the 
splendid Arab ponies which til] quite lately were the admiration 
of all travellers who visited Gomera. ; 
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Se a ae ge 
A Method of Macerating Fibres.—It is necessary whet 
examining y 
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elements of the fibrous sg 
e 
‘ qn measurements and other characters of th 
individual elements can he easily determined. f 
a ‘Here are several methods of macerating plant-tissues. One % 
these often employed in botanical laboratories, e.g., for studyiB8 
