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Bamboo bf^longs to the grass family, al- 

 though its tall stalks resemble saplings. As 

 material for rafts, fishing poles and even for 

 houses it has been in use since the world 

 was young. Orientals consider the young 

 shoots, which resemble asparagus, a nutri- 

 tious food. 



The banyan tree, on account of its habit 

 of putting forth numberless trunks to sup- 

 port its branches, is regarded as a robber. 

 But it yields rubber equal to Para. 



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Although the spongy 

 wood of the silk-cotton 

 tree, found principally in 

 Jamaica, West Indies, is 

 too light to be of com- 

 mercial value, the natives 

 make canoes out of it 

 and fill cushions and pil- 

 lows with its long silky 

 threads. Its root-forma- 

 tions make the tree 

 earthquake proof. 



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