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and anotlier at Putten, Bincc destroyed by the digging of a well under part of its 

 roots, which, though but seventy feet high, was forty-six feet in girth. 



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Draccenas, or "dragon-trees," are found growing on the west coast of Africa and 

 in the Cape Colony, in Uourbon and in China ; but it is only in the Canary Islands^ 

 in Madeira, and Porto Santo, that they attain such gigantic dimensions as to entitle 

 them to rank among the vegetable wonders of the world. Near Orotava, in Tone- 



