Show plant stones of 0 f philippines plant stones seem to bo be among the rarest of tho the strange products pio ducts of the philippine islands tho th ta bashir is a variety ot of opal sometimes deposited in the joints of the bamboo and the beautiful greenish pink scintillating specimens of tho the philippines are stat od ed by a german publication to bo be much more costly than the ordinary opal thousands of cane stalks may be examined without finding one of these curious gems which are probably the result of disease or injury beautiful bluish pearls or stony secretions ont are occasionally formed in some cocoa nuts and are found ranging in size from a pinhead to a pea by carefully examining the interior of ripe nuts about a dozen of these exquisite pearls all from the phillp philippines pines are said to be preserved among the ures of european maseu museu |