Show JAVANESE WEED OF VALUE its it fibers make the best kind of mattres mattress known every year amsterdam receives nearly 1000 pounds weight of a curl ou I 1 and interesting vegetable known in java and in tho the trado trade as kapok it Is a sort of yellow wadding which nature uses as a covering for tho the seeds of certain trees in tho malac cas its fibers being very it has been found impossible to spin or weave cave it but it gives excellent results for bedding making a mattress delights de delightfully lightf ully soft if it Is exposed to the sun before being used it Is exceedingly light and buoyant in this respect greatly surpassing cork as it will sit support aport in the water ahr thirty ty five times its own oun weight the treo chenco it Is derived Erlo dendron grows rapidly and in tho the second year Is twelve to fifteen feet high but it docs does not fruit abundantly until tho 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 extrac tec tee from the seeds which la Is used especially in the chinese markets the threads of the soft hber fiber taken talen from the pods are light yellow rather silky and only about an inch in length they are made into an inch in length |