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Identifier: palmtree00mood
Title: The palm tree
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Moody, Sophy
Subjects: Palms Trees in the Bible
Publisher: London : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row Edinburgh, and New York
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under cuticle of au alHgator. In the sweltering heat of the jungle they aresaid to grow with almost inconceivable rapidity.The native interpreter attached to the gun-boatEmerald, assured Mr. Osborne that he had oftenknown a sprout to shoot up an inch and a half in asingle night. The inside of the fruit, which is produced in suchabundance, is edible, like that of the Coco Palm ;the nuts are described as large as a mans head. This palm is known in Ce^don as the WaterCoco Nut. In all recently formed lands tliere it issaid to form an important feature. Like those adventurous spirits that, penetratingunknown lands, become the advanced guards ofcivilization, this brave little palm, pioneer of thevegetable kingdom, pushes its way tlirough thewatery mud which, collecting at the mouths of rivers,becomes in time a valuable acquisition of fertile soil. Nipa fviicticons is one of the sacred trees of theSinghalese, having been selected by one of theBuddhas as his Bo-tree. • ^t %ixumx ®xl f aim.
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(Flceis (jfuineensis.—LjyNJEVS.) HE vegetable world is full of wonder andinterest ; the band of tbe Creator isstamped on eacb leaf and flower. Whe-ther our eyes are turned to the slow andsilent increase of life on wave-washedcoral reefs, or to the indescribably gor-geous luxuriance of tropical forests, or to the homelycheerfulness of hedges and wayside ditches in ournative land, tangled with wild flowers, overgrownwith spear-like rushes and broad-leafed water plants,in all places tales of Wisdom and Love unfold them-selves. We can but wonder and adore. The mineral kingdom 3ields not to the vegetableworld in the marvels it contains. Deep down in thedark bosom of the earth precious gems echo back thelessoning of ])ebbles at our feet. The stones cryout to man of the wisdom and love of the Makerof us all. The industrial world of science and art combines,as it were, both of those worlds. Mens inventive THE AFRICAN OIL PALM. 141 liiaiiis and skilful hands—themselves Gods gifts—working
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