Show A vegetable wool the name came of vegetable wool is ap plied to a fibrous material obtained from the leaves of the or fir a manufactory for this purpose having been established near breslau in silesia the species of pine thus operated upon is the 8 v e or wild pine and it would beem seem that every member of the pine tribe might be turned to similar account the leaTe leaver sot of these trees on examination will be found to be made up of a fibrous material held together by a resinous sub substance since the latter may be dissolved out by means of kalies alkalis al leaving the woolly matter behind coverlets blankets and other articles made of vegetable wool are in use in austria and especially in the public institutions of vienna the material Is ble and in all respects agreeable moreover it possesses the excellent quality of preserving a certain balsamic and anddie andrie de wholesome smell which nevertheless is so inimical to insects that thai they never harbor in it a as they do in ill almost all the ordinary descriptions of bf bed material the resinous matter hold hoid holding ing the thie woolly together and which id eliminated or dissolved out by the kalies alkalis al is also turned to account medicinal baths bath being made with it as a basis and which are f und to be useful in various chronic diseases |