. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 397. Indian hemp {Apoaynum can- naUnum), a common native Abaed. (Fig. 398; also Fig. 142, Vol. I.) Abacd or Manila hemp is derived from the sheath- ing leaf-stems of the abac4 plant, Musa textilis, Nee., a perennial belonging to the Musaeex or Banana family. [See account in Vol. I, page 125.] Re. 398. Abac& (Mtisa textilis). Two-year-old The fiber, as found in our market, is six to twelve feet in length, rather coarse and stiff,
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. Fig. 397. Indian hemp {Apoaynum can- naUnum), a common native Abaed. (Fig. 398; also Fig. 142, Vol. I.) Abacd or Manila hemp is derived from the sheath- ing leaf-stems of the abac4 plant, Musa textilis, Nee., a perennial belonging to the Musaeex or Banana family. [See account in Vol. I, page 125.] Re. 398. Abac& (Mtisa textilis). Two-year-old The fiber, as found in our market, is six to twelve feet in length, rather coarse and stiff, reddish yel- low to nearly white, light in weight, and the better grades remarkably strong. The approximate break- ing strain of the current abaca ropes of different sizes is as follows : i-inch diameter 550 pounds. J-inch diameter 2,000 pounds. 1-inoh diameter 7,000 pounds. 2-inch diameter 25,000 pounds. The abaca plant is very similar in appearance to the banana plant. It consists of a stalk or trunk six to fifteen inches in diameter, and six to fifteen feet high, made up of herbaceous, concentric, over- lapping leaf-stems, bearing at the summit long, pinnately-veined leaves. (Fig. 398.) It reaches maturity when two to five years old. A flower- stalk pushes up through the center of the trunk, emerging at the top where it bears a cluster of flowers, followed by small, seed-bearing inedible bananas. The stalk then dies, but meanwhile two to twenty others of various ages are growing in a rather open clump from the same root. The fiber is composed of the fibrovascular bundles near the outer surfaces of the leaf-stems. Abaca is native in the Philippines. It has been distributed throughout the greater part of the Philippine archipelago, and also has been intro- duced into Guam, Borneo and the .Andamann islands. It is cultivated commercially only in a comparatively small part of the Philippines. The most important abaca districts are the Camarines, Albay and Sorsogon in the souther
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