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degrees and modes of washing the pulp, much also depends as to the 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 papei ifl 
finished much after the European mode, except that stalks of rushes are used, 
instead of brass wires." The 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. 
