Show JAVANESE WEED OF VALUE iti its fibers make the bert beat kind of mattres mattress known every year amsterdam receive receives nearly I 1 pounds weight of a curl ous and interesting vegetable known in java and in the trade as kapok it Is a sort ot of yellow wadding which nature uses as a covering for the seeds of certain trees in the malac cas its fibers being very non resist ing it has been found impossible to spin or weave it but it gives excel lent results for bedding making a mattress delightfully soft it if it ie to ex posed to the sun before being used it Is exceedingly light and buoyant in this respect greatly surpassing cork as a it will support in the water thirty five times its own weight the tree whence it Is derived grows rapidly and in the second secand year Is twelve 16 fifteen feet high gh I 1 but it does not fruit abundantly until the fourth year like the cotton plant it be bestrews two gifts on man the special wadding mentioned which lines the husk and the oil extracted from the seeds which Is used ally in the chinese markets the threads of the soft fiber taken from the pods are light yellow rather sitky and only about an inch in ln length they are made into an inch in length |