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umbrellas, for table ware (plates and other dishes). The 

 nut when green is food and drink ; when ripe, its husk 

 yields the coir fibre from which mats, ropes, cordage, 

 brushes and woven coir matting are made. The inner 

 hard shell is made into cups, dippers and other vessels; 

 the kernel is the copra of commerce used in making 

 confections. From it the valuable commercial product 

 called cocoa-nut oil is pressed, and from the oil candles, 



butter and soap are made. An average yield of a tree 

 is sixty nuts. A thousand nuts will produce five hundred 

 pounds of copra, or twenty-five gallons of oil. The cli- 

 mate of Ceylon is well adapted to all kinds of palms and 

 embraced in her many plantations there are said to be 

 over thirty million trees. The wealth of the Ceylonese 

 is usually estimated by the number of cocoa-nut trees 

 they own. Native boats from the Maldize Islands some- 



, C .9S^ UT PLAN TATION PROTECTED AGAINST NUT THIEVES. NOTE THE DRIED FRONDS 

 FMS E P ? N THE TRUNK S OF THE TREES, WHICH WILL CRACKLE UNDER THE FEET OF THE 

 MOST NIMBLE CLIMBER AND ATTRACT THE ATTENTION OF THE GUARD 





