Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 110
branches out of the top ofit as shown in our picture, evidently thrivingon the special allowance of air and sunshinewhich its lofty and isolated position gives it. In the central part of Florida, near Ft. Pierce,in the heart of a pine forest, stands an old deadpine-tree, absolutely devoid of… … Bolivia—a veritable monarch of its kind. Itmeasures twenty-seven feet around its base, andyields more than twenty pounds of rubber everyday for a hundred and twenty.days of the year.At the present price of rubber the tree is worthabout sixty thousand dollars, and the income de-rived from it…
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