Tropical Fibres : Their Production And Economic Extraction
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Great confusion also exists in the names of the fibres ex- tracted from the Agaves and those taken from the Bromelias, or plants of the Pine Apple family, which are often con- founded, even in the countries where they are produced. The following descriptions, however, will serve to correct, in part at least, some of the mistakes in these respects. Clavijero, in his History of Mexico, has epitomized the uses of the various kinds of agaves of that country, in the fallow- ing language : "Some spec...ies furnish protecting inclosurcs, and afford impassable hedges to other objects of cultivation. From the juice of others are extracted honey, sugar, vincgc^r, pidqiiCy and ardent spirits. From the trunk and the tliickest part of the leaves, roasted in the earth, an agreeable food is obtained. The flowering stalks serve as beams, and the leaves as roofs ENDOGENOUS PLANTS. 27 for bouses. The thorns answer for lancets, awls, needles, arrow heads, and other cutting and penetrating instruments. But the fibrous substance of the leaves is the most important gift of the agaves to Mexico.
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