New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-01-31
..,,, GIANTS producing all the tiats Of dark red

ether plants, producing all the titits OF aafh 'e'.
! black and green.
Many 81 the forest trees yield valuable .9 gums;
not yet familiar TO commerce or medicine anu
fhev t,fnanrise some DC the most delicious per-
fS1nes and incense that can be imagined Others,
e, are ike ambcr-hard brittle, and inso-
S.sisla III nater SOME tedars yield gum equal
! A cn,n Arabic others natural glue. which,
Wheen once dried, is unaffected by wet or damp
1,ess The scrisiga, or rubber tree, the product
Of which is now almost q monopoly With fara'
md also the Palo Sant0, which produces the
l1lrl riilacul,, crowd the forests, ready to give
d their riches to the first conner and the sweet
f,ayored Vanilla modestly fiourishes, as if invit-
ing the hand Of man. i,s.s-
fJpon the hills. the celebrated Yerbd Matte,
which is the exclusive beverage of one-haH OF
South America, has only to be gathered. lts
preparation is in an exceedingly crude state,
and could be benefcially improved by employing
some Of our corn mills and probably it, use
could be introduced into this country with au-
vantage 81 II. st5. q Ia a.
Upon the fertile alluyial banks Of 50 many
large streams, sugaf-eane, cotton, tooacco oi
superior quality, rice, mandoea, indian i corn
md d thousand other produ.ctions- vegetate with
,,r,sf9,sim: while seven varieties of the bamboo
{;naS the riyer banks and dot the frequent lakes
;tf Stats a. touching beauty On the plains,
I'll ,,n,,titias of hides, hair, horns, bones, talow,
] ets nv lost for want Of transportation IT we
u, ii the forests, We find two or three kinds OF
q kenp. vast quantities Of wax, mar sapamico. or
e s6ap nut the cocoa, and vegetable oils IN
abundance. with two kinds of wild cotton, ad-
n,irably adapted for the manufacture Of paper
But it Is with the forest trees of Paraguay
h TINT love most to dwell. Giants there they
are, vast and noble in their aspect, and able, as
III were. TO utter for themselves the sublime
music III tie wilderness. Sixty varieties al,
ready known, furnish timber Of all kinds ana
colors and degrees of durability, elasticity ana
hnoyancy have seen tiInbers of the Lapacho
that have supported the roofs Of houses, Ii u
z Rnanos Ayres. for more than two hundred
years They are now as sound as ever, and to
i Xii annearance capable of performing the same
sary;c. rs fhe and of the world A door sill of
M, M. III wood, half Undecided in the ground,
4 s,,l7 marked 1922 belonging to the front
door Of the house which / inhabited in the city
Of Asuncon Upon the closest inspection. IT
was in Il state Of perfect preservation. Several
other woods of the same variety are so heavy as
ID sink III water, and all, while difficult to burn
in houses, form, under strong draft, fire almost
equal to stone -coalvin intensity.
Another tree, the seibo, when green, is spongy
and soft as cork, and can be cut like an apple
4 but when dry it is so hard as almost to defy thu
4 action Of steel. Again, we have seen the Pail
de Yiyara, or snake tree, whose leaves are al
infallab1e cure for the bites OF serpents. Tn
Palo de Leche, OF milk tree, may be called I
vegetable cow, and the Palo de Borracho, o.
drunken tree, a vegetable distillery The lsacs
resin is found at the roots of trees, undel
ground, and is a natural pitch, ready prepared
to pay the seams Of vessels.