THE SUGAR PALM.
In the southern parts of French Indo-China the natives obtain both food artel a certain kind of wine from the sugar palm. Several varieties of this palm are exploited by the natives. The tree attains a height of fully twenty feet, but cannot be tapped to any advantage until it is fifty or sixty years of age, when it begins to flower.
The flowers, which generally appear at the end of branches, are cut open, and the sap which exudes is collected in little bamboo cups. Sometimes v a single flower will produce a quart and a half of sap daily for a month, but LhS average is about a quart each day per tree during the four or five months of inflorescence.
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 618, 22 March 1921, Page 3
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126THE SUGAR PALM. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 618, 22 March 1921, Page 3
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