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Title: American forestry
Identifier: americanforestry201914amer (find matches)
Year: 1910-1923 (1910s)
Authors: American Forestry Association
Subjects: Forests and forestry
Publisher: Washington, D. C. : American Forestry Association
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
Digitizing Sponsor: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden

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One of the Rare Openings in the Forest. green slopes rise quickly behind the town of papeete to splintered volcanic peaks nearly eight thousand feet high, carved by precipitous valleys with countless flashing water falls. Copra, which is dried cocoanut meat from which an oil is expressed that has countless uses for soaps, cosmetics and food-products, is the chief South Sea commodity. Hundreds of islands have practically no other trade. Indeed the cocoanut has no rival among trees for all round usefulness. Its fruit supplies food, drink and money. It feeds pigs and chickens with no labor beyond splitting the fallen nuts. Its leaves furnish building material and sleeping mats; the nut husks are excellent fuel. Dominating the landscape by its indi- viduality and grace, it appeals to the forester as the king of trees. Vanilla, of which Tahiti furnishes per- haps a third of the world's supply, is also largely grown in the forest, the vines climbing rooted and growing poles in partial shade. The hermaphrodite flowers are "married" bv deft native

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