EDITORIAL. 
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name of the u traveller’s palm,” from which, when an incision 
has been made into the bark, there issues a thick, white sap, 
looking and tasting much like fresh cow’s milk. This milk is 
said to be very nutritious, and because of its value to travellers 
in the tropics the French government has already caused speci¬ 
mens of this Madagascar tree to be planted along the highways 
in certain portions of the French West Indies. 
The “ Palo de Va*ca ” or cow tree of South America also 
yields, it is said, a milky fluid closely resembling cow’s milk, 
both in appearance and quality ; it is said to be perfectly whole¬ 
some and nourishing, possessing an agreeable taste like that of 
rich cream, and a pleasant balsamic odor, its only unpleasant 
quality being a slight amount of stickiness. 
Just think how agreeable it will be when the householder of 
the future, in need of a supply of fresh milk for the nursery or 
cuisine, will have only to step out into his garden and, with his 
“ little hatchet,” draw forth from an inexhaustible milk tree 
his lacteal fluid, free from all the terrors of bovine tuberculosis 
and the myriad animalculse of the milkman’s pump ! Verily, 
the roseate vaporings of the nineteenth century scientist knows 
no bounds, as he constantly pictures to himself the panorama of 
an animalless Eden here on earth. “R.” 
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