Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-01-12

variety, not over TWO lncne0 In
diameter, and twenty feet in
height; the stalks are straight and
symmetrical: the whole stem is
divided into joints or articulations,
separated by an internode or knot
this is natures ingenious way of
giving great strength to a light
and slender stalk. The partition
at the joint extends across the
stalk and is impervious to air and
water, so that each join can be
used as receptacle for many
purposes. For measures, from a
gill tosa gallon or several gallons,
one has only to cut a joi4tof the
RICH size and length. Lateral,
branches spring out from the
joints, but not until the stalk has
reached it's full height. Chairs,
tables and mattresses, cooking
utensils, umbrellas. fans, chop
sticks, bedsteads, agricultural
implements, harness, fishing-tackle,
baskets, traps Of every sort from
the cricket trap to the tiger trap,
are made of it. Two clumps of
bamboo will furnish the entire
material for a comfortable house
in Southern China, at a cost of
five dollars.
In direct contrast is the Pine
Forest of North Carolina. 1t is
near Pinehurst that you find this
particular forest In the great
Sand Belt" in the South centr al
part of the State. The long-leaved
Southern pine is a species distinct
from those growing in the North
ern and Western States, and is
much richer IN resinous elements
than any of the other American
pitch pines. ...,.
The peculiar. sap which flows
through the tree trunks woody
tissue is what we call crude
turpentine. In order to get at it
they have to take off a portion of
the protecting bark, and they do
this first down quite near the
roots. They do not absolutely
ring" the tree clean ard bare but
leavelong strips of the fibrous inner
bark, to keep up the vital connec-
ton between the roots and
branches. Each successive season
they take off another section of
bark just above the last, and SO
on. You can see on trees scars
showing the limit of the stripping
in preceding years. The men cut
a trough in the foot of the tree
itself, to catch the sap (turpen-
tine) as it slowly oozos out from
the barred sap-wood and trickles
and dribbles down over the naked
trunk. The stuff collected here is
practically a solution Of resin in a
volatile oil, containing a good
many impurities which have to be
removed by distillation. Part of
this very sap may help calk the
ship in which you make a sea-
voyage; it may enter into tie soap
that washes your cluales: it may
help varnish your parlor table or
paint your kitchen flour. 1t may
enter into the ink the printer uses
to prepare your morning news
paper. This removal of the trees
blood tends to kill it after a
while.
Among the most mar velous
forests in the world are those
within the wonderful one hundred
and fifty-acre enclosure of the
Ceylon Royal Botanic Gardens, four
miles from Handy, the old Ceylon-
csc capitol. The gardens are
passed on the way up from the
port of Colombo, seventy miles
away on the west coast.
There is q majesty, a grandeur.
q beauty about the primeval forest,
that is not found anywhere else.
The high trunks of the trees rave
a dignity that is found in no other
work Of nature. unless il be the