LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 



The Jack Fruit Tree 



Cutting Fruit from a Plantain Tree 

 Planting Tea Seedlings . 

 Tree Fern Stem Section 

 Rattan Cane . . . 



Glacier Bay, Straits of Magellan 

 Yucca in Bloom .... 

 Liberian Coffee .... 

 Land Formation in Ponds 

 Alfalfa and Butterfly . 

 Sanddunes at San Vicente, Chile . 

 Plucking the Leaves of a Tea Plant 

 A Banyan Tree .... 

 Stinging Hairs of the Nettle 

 Vegetable Marrow, Stem Section . 

 Plucking Cocoa Pods 

 Chestnut Woods in a Corsican Valley 

 Tapping a Maple Tree 

 Preparing Maple Sugar . 

 Near Ajaccio, Corsica 

 The Giant Bamboo .... 

 Cocoa-Nut Palms near Aguadilla . 

 The Screw Pine .... 

 A Giant Cactus .... 

 Vineyards in the Champagne District 

 Maqui in Corsica .... 

 Gathering the Cocoa Crop 



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