. 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. 326 The World's Commercial Products T' ^ ^ ^ ^ the TIrtc art- four chiLf variutits, \, Spanisli, usually icgardid as the bf>t, Algerian, Tunisian,aiul Tripoli, the last three being in order of e.\cellen(e. The paj)er manufactured from this grass is pliant, strong, transparent, and of great puritv, i)ut ( annot eompete in price with
. 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. 326 The World's Commercial Products T' ^ ^ ^ ^ the TIrtc art- four chiLf variutits, \, Spanisli, usually icgardid as the bf>t, Algerian, Tunisian,aiul Tripoli, the last three being in order of e.\cellen(e. The paj)er manufactured from this grass is pliant, strong, transparent, and of great puritv, i)ut ( annot eompete in price with the cheap (|ualities madi' from wood \m\\i. A gra>s very similar to esparto in its paper-making qualities is the Hhabur grass of India. The straw of numerous cereal grasses is also used where obtainable, wheat, oats, and barley being employed in iiumpe, and rice in Asia, but the jiapers are of a low grade, and nun h interior to esparto paper. The fibrous inner bark of the Baobab tree (AdiUisonia digihitu) also .it one time used to a extent foi- paper, but its Mse has now declined. The [)ai)er used so largely by the Jap,iiie>e for I,interns, umbrellas, aiid books of ,ill kinds, is made from the ynung shoots of ^^^^^ ^^^_^___^ BroHssonctia pupyrijcru, the |)a!)er miilberr\-, % ^ _J|^B I^IE^^^^HH ^^''i^'i widely distributed throughout Hastern .Asia and I'olynesia. The plant is also inteiestiiig as the source of the famous Tapa cloth of the South Islanders. Chinese rice paptT is prepared from the pith ol hatsui papyrifcra. a common in Formosa. A jjajH-r, common in India, and known ,is â â Nei)al" and '"Uaphiu'" paper, is made bv the hill tribes of Nepal from the bast tibns of Dciphnc itiiiiiabiiui (I), papyri I era), and one or two other closely allied plants. The paper IS remarkably tough nnd smooth and has received high coiuniendation from l-aiglisli experts. Tile â ' Papyrus "' edge formerK- larfiely ciiltivatt'd on the ban
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