. Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies. lace, which yielded an abundance of ripe and half-ripe nuts throughout the season. Edna alwayskept a supply of fresh cocoanut water on the tablefor drinking, and she used the creamy young meatto put on one of her favorite desserts, a mixture ofsliced oranges and bananas. The cocoanut palm is an exceedingly valuabletree, every part of it being useful for trunk, the leaves, the husks, the green nuts, andthe ripe nuts furnish wood, fibers, and foods. Coirfiber, used in making mats and ropes, is made fr
. Three young Crusoes, their life and adventures on an island in the West Indies. lace, which yielded an abundance of ripe and half-ripe nuts throughout the season. Edna alwayskept a supply of fresh cocoanut water on the tablefor drinking, and she used the creamy young meatto put on one of her favorite desserts, a mixture ofsliced oranges and bananas. The cocoanut palm is an exceedingly valuabletree, every part of it being useful for trunk, the leaves, the husks, the green nuts, andthe ripe nuts furnish wood, fibers, and foods. Coirfiber, used in making mats and ropes, is made fromthe husk of the unripe fruit; brooms from fibers inthe leaf-stalk; oil for burning, making soap, andeating in place of butter, is pressed from the ripemeat; sugar is obtained from the sap of the youngflower cluster; and various utensils from the shellof the nut. A single royal palm towered between the houseand the kitchen, its straight, smooth trunk lookinglike a shapely Grecian column. Several smallerpalms of different kinds, such as the small-fruited 9o Three Young Crusoes. Fig. 33. An avenue of royal palms in Cuba. The nuts are very small,but are borne in large clusters. The leaf-sheaths are used for the sidesand partitions of houses, and also for baling tobacco. The Trees in the Yard 9i thatch palm and the silver thatch palm, were ar-ranged about the yard, singly or in clumps, evident-ly planted there for ornament; while the southernpalmetto, or cabbage palm, was mostly found inthe fields. The boys had heard that its young leaf-buds were good to eat, but they hated to cut down ,%?-, W* WX: ^yiV/». y^^^^Mt i: > .:: . 1, *.•?»• - . stea, ? • .. Fig. 34. A Cuban hut made entirely of royal palm. the beautiful trees for the buds alone, and the mon-key could not be induced to gather them, since theywere not mentioned in his text-book of botany. Hehad no difficulty with cocoanuts, because his ownface was stamped on the end of each one of them. <;2 Three Young C
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