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INDURTRIAI. PLANTS 



the coconut trunk (Fig. 34) is imported for the use of cabinet 

 makers in ornamental ^vork and to some extent for canes. 

 Canes of rather curious appearance are made sometimes also 



leaves of the date-palm 



from the mid-rib of the gigantic 



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ifiG. 264. — Treo-cai)l:(afi;e {Brassica olcracea vdi\ accphai'i, AIusLaixl Family, 

 Cruciferm). Plant, i'™. (Vilniorin.) — Perennial herb growing 2 m. 

 tall; leaves, ete., as in other forms of eabbage. Native home, \Vestcra 

 Europe. 



(Fig. 108). Another curious walking-stick is made from the 

 stalk of an extraordinarily tall variety of cabbage (Fig. 264). 

 The bamboo (Fig. 224) of which there are many sjiecies, has, 

 as is well known, a very wide rtutge of uses among which the 

 most familiar to us are for canes and umbrella handles, fishing- 



