The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . use. To convert this bark into paper, theyproceed in the following manner: —Thedried bark is first moistened by soakingfor a few hours in water; all superfluousmatter is then removed by scraping witha knife, after which the bark is boiled in aley of wood-ashes until its fibres arethoroughly separated, when it is reducedto a pulp by beating with wooden batons ;this pulp is then mixed with mucilage andspread upon frames made of rushes. Thepaper thus made is of a whity
The treasury of botany: a popular dictionary of the vegetable kingdom; with which is incorporated a glossary of botanical terms . use. To convert this bark into paper, theyproceed in the following manner: —Thedried bark is first moistened by soakingfor a few hours in water; all superfluousmatter is then removed by scraping witha knife, after which the bark is boiled in aley of wood-ashes until its fibres arethoroughly separated, when it is reducedto a pulp by beating with wooden batons ;this pulp is then mixed with mucilage andspread upon frames made of rushes. Thepaper thus made is of a whity-browncolour, and very strong; it is in commonuse in Japan. Instead of paper, the na-tives of the South Sea Islands manufacturefrom this bark an exceedingly tough cloth,called tapa or kapa cloth, which theycommonly use for clothing, either plain orprinted, and dyed of various colours. Thiscloth is principally made by the women,who adopt the following method of manu-facture:—The bark is first softened bybeing soaked in water for a considerablelength of time: it is then placed upon alog of wood and beaten out with a baton. Broussonetia papyrifera. until it is of the requisite degree of fine-ness : the baton is made of very hard wood,and has four flat sides, each of which issharply ribbed. Two or four womenusually work together, and as they keeptime in beating, the noise they make isloud and musical. In some islands, how-ever, another and inferior method isadopted, the bark being placed upon aflat board, and scraped with different kindsof sharp-edged shells while kept constantlywet. By employing mucilage obtainedfrom the arrow-root, the natives joinpieces of the cloth together, and AdmiralSir Everard Home states that the King ofTongataboo (one of the Friendly Islands)had a piece made which was two miles longand 120 feet wide. [A. SJ BROWALLIA. The name of certainplants belonging to the order of linariads,characterised thus: calyx-teeth unequal;corolla salver-shaped with a bord
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