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Show The Jfalinetto Proving Useful. The graceful palmetto, that grows so profusely in the lower tiers of the southern states, has recently become a factor in the industries of the south, for its wood is hard enough to carve and its fiber is strong enough to make excellent cordage and a useful substitute substi-tute for sponges. In Jacksonville, Fla., & factory has been started for the pvrr-pose(of pvrr-pose(of making brushes and brooms of the fiber, and elsewhere sink brushes are being made of the wood, half of whose thickness is being converted into bristling points. The young leaves of the tree make a salad that the people are beginning to appreciate, and the taste of it is likened to that of chestnuts. chest-nuts. Bears knew about it long before the people did, and it is a favorite article arti-cle of diet among them the black bears climbing the trees and browsing on the fresh shoots as eagerly as they browse on watermelons. |