Show THE THU JAPANESE WAX TREE aare I 1 fukuo A I 1 sea I 1 the japan haje bale or hazo haze tho the tree co coTi mence to bear fruit when 3 or 6 year cd and increases its product every year till at t tho the age we of 60 50 years a single tree will ut produce 50 to pounds of berries from which seventy to eighty pound pounds of wax ian an be obtained the wax Is forma I in tn the middle of the bry b ry bt reea the ekin skin and the like the pulp ot of a grope it is extracted by boiling the berries in water and allowing it to cool when the wax separates epa rates from the skin and seed eink gink lag ing a to the bottom of the vessel in a olid solid cake tho ila specific gravity ol 01 this wax la is 0 and IU its melting maltin point IS I 1 degrees fahrenheit it is largely used either atone alone or mixed wah tallow by the chinese in the manufacture of candles this tree should not be con founded with the tallow tree of china which has a pith of solid tallow in all till trees that have fully matured SL st louis republic |