. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 322 The World's Commercial Products'. (.ArllKKIN then dies, is cultivated in Mexico, wiieie it is known as " Maguey," while tlie (ibre yielded by it is described under the native name of " ; Istle, or Mexican Fibre, is yiehled i)y live or six species of plants growing on the arid tablelands of northern Mexico, but the greater p
. The world's commercial products [microform] : a descriptive account of the economic plants of the world and of their commercial uses. Plant products; Produits naturels; Produits végétaux; Natural products; Botanique agricole; Botany, Economic. 322 The World's Commercial Products'. (.ArllKKIN then dies, is cultivated in Mexico, wiieie it is known as " Maguey," while tlie (ibre yielded by it is described under the native name of " ; Istle, or Mexican Fibre, is yiehled i)y live or six species of plants growing on the arid tablelands of northern Mexico, but the greater part of the fibre is obtained from the leaves of Agavc luicrii- aiiiUui. Istle is employed in the manufacture of the cheaj)er grades of cordage. PlIOKMUM FlMKI-: I'hormium libre, often in- correctly known as New Zealand I"'lax or Hemp, is obtained from the leaves of I'hormium touix, a i)lant belonging to the Lily family {Liliincdc), and found wild in New Zealand, Norfolk Island, and the Chatham Islands. The [ilant is said to be unrivalled for its yield of hbre, the sword-shaped leavi's, whi''- measure from live to ten feet in length, giving upwards of (ifteen per cent, of their gre. • ight as cleaned hbre. The Maoris have long bi'cii known to pripare a most excellent libre from I'hormiuni by hand, and even at the present day the macliine-])rei)ared product cannot approach the native article in ([uality. The hand-made libre, h()wever, is much too expensive to be able to com- pete successfully with other conunercial libri-s, and in all tl;e mills controlled by limopeans machinery is employtrain is stated to be liigher than that of either hemp '>r llax. HowsruiMi iI:;Mi's These libres, which niiive iheii' iiaiius from the fart that the natixes in \arious parts f)f the world are said to pii'|)are their bowstrings Irom them, are derived from the leaves of seNeral specii's of Sanses iiiia. an impoitant genu-- ol , with represeiilalives in the tropical regions of
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