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TALLOW TREE. 
Chinese with a material for candles; they extract besides 
from its seeds oil for their lamps. The ordinary method 
employed in separating the tallow from the fruit, is by 
bruising together the capsules and seeds, afterwards 
boiling the mass in water, and skimming off the oil 
that arises to the surface, which, when cold, becomes 
condensed like tallow. To every 6 pounds of this fat 
is sometimes put 3 pounds of linseed oil, with a little 
wax to give it a more solid consistence. The candles 
thus obtained are of an extreme whiteness, but are also 
made red by the addition of vermilion. It is said that 
the Chinese steep these candles in a sort of wax, also 
the produce of a tree, which forms a crust around the 
tallow that hinders them from melting. 
In the Southern States, though the trees produce an 
abundance of perfect fruit, no use is yet made of it. 
Plate LXII. 
A branch of the natural size. a. A cluster of male flowers. 
b. A single male flower, c. The seeds or nuts coated with wax. 
