274 INDUSTRIAL PLANTS 
the coconut trunk (Fig. 34) is imported for the use of cabinet 
makers in ornamental work and to some extent for canes. 
Canes of rather curious appearance are made sometimes also 
from the mid-rib of the gigantic leaves of the date-palm 
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tia. 264.—Tree-cabbage (Brassica oleracea var. acephala, Mustard Family, 
Crucifere). Plant, zs. (Vilmorin.)—Perennial herb growing 2 m. 
tall; leaves, etc., as in other forms of cabbage. Native home, Western 
Europe. 
(Fig. 108). Another curious walking-stick is made from the 
stalk of an extraordinarily tall variety of cabbage (Fig. 264). 
The bamboo (Fig. 224) of which there are many species, has, 
as is well known, a very wide range of uses among which the 
most familiar to us are for canes and umbrella handles, fishing- 
