Show TREE HAS CANDY FLOWERS Indian Product That Rivals the Gingerbread GIngerbread Gin Hou House of the Remembered Fairy Tales Talas We have all r read ad the story of ot the gingerbread house In the fairy fairy- tales Well there is a family of trees in India that have candy flowers or orthe orthe orthe the next thin thing to It These trees are arc known us the tile Bassi a trees tree and of ot the three important kinds two have sugary flowers and the third Is called the Indian butter tree The petals of ot the flowers are rich In sugar suar and drop from the tree In the early morn morn- Ing lag They are picked up by the women women wom worn en and ancI children and are are re spread out outon outon outon on mats to dry in the sun A single singletree singletree singletree tree will furnish pounds of ot flowers flowers flow v ers in a year ear earThen When Then fresh the flowers are very sweet and taste much lIken like n figs They are paten eaten fresh or cooked with rice rIce rIce- shredded coconut or flour The seeds of ot the butter tree are full fun of ot of oil oll and this oil 1 Is Ia used to make a kind of butter and also niso for tor soap and candles Popular lJ Mechanics Maga Maga- zinc zine |