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INDUSTIUAT. 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 



itXG. 264. — Tree-cabbage (Brassica olcracea var. accphaUi, Mustard Family, 

 Cruciferw). Plant, I'j. (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- 



