Palms Soap Wax B rooms;' 1 \ o I 



1 8. The cbcoanut- 

 palm not only gives 

 us this fruit, but sup- 

 plies us with oil that 

 makes the only soap 

 that can be used with 

 salt water. Another 

 palm gives us millions 

 of fans that are sold 

 in this country for a 

 few cents each, though 

 brought all the way 

 from Asia. Anoth- 

 er palm gives wax to 

 make candles. One 

 kind of palm that 

 grows in Brazil has 



In the blackboard drawing- make fifty feet long. These 

 the trunk of the Cocoanut- 

 tree 20 inches in heig-ht (one- are USCd tor roofing 



houses there. Another 



gives us its leaf-stalks to make coarse brooms. 



19. The cocoanut-palm grows only in warm countries, 

 and on the islands of the Indian Ocean and the tropical 

 parts of the Pacific Ocean. 



20. It grows to the height of about one hundred feet, 

 lives about one hundred years, and bears about one hun- 

 dred cocoanuts every year. 



21. Its leaves, which are only at the top of the tree, 

 are about twenty feet in length. 



