The King Of Trees

A full list can hardly be mado of all tho nocí al services which the coooa-nut, and the other parta of the tree to wbioh it belongs, rendei" to man, especially in the East. The kern el is not eaten as we eat it, as fruit, but is prepared in a variety of way- for ourries and other dignes the milky juice is rulished as a pleasant beverage, and the oil is used in making stearine candles and marine soap, and, iu tropioal oomitries, lamp-' :', ointmont, and an aid to cookcry; the resin from the trunk, mixed with the oil from the nut, and raolted, forms a eubstance uscd for filling up the seams of ships and boats, covering the eorks of bottles, and repelling the attacks of the whitu antthe root possessos narcotic proporties, and is soinetiines chewed like tho areca nut. Tho tern-inal bud is esteemed a delicacy, although not easily obtained without cutting down the tree. The sap, or toddy, is a beverago, and is also feimented to produce palm-winn and arrack-spirit. Tho driud luavus ere used for thatch, and for uiaking screons, mats, baskets, and a kind of plait ; while the mid-rib of tho leaf serves the nativos as an oar. The wood of the lower part of the stem is very hard, takes"a'bèautiful polisb, and is known to our turners and ornamental joiners as porcupine wood ; tho tibrous oentor of tho oidor sterns is worked like coir into cordago and similar articles. The husk of the ripo nut, when cut across, is usod for polishing f urniture and scrubbing floors. Within the nut is oocasioually found a small stony substance of a bluish white color, worn bv the