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    • Oil Palm

    • Oil Palm

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    • Oil palm

    • "Ascending an oil palm to cut down the cones of the palm nuts. Liberia. Used in manufacturing of soap and in the tin plate industry. An important article of food among West African natives. "Palm oil chop" is one of the few native dishes which have...
    • Olive Orchard

    • Olive Orchard

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    • Trees; Olives

    • "In an Olive Orchard near Gaza, Palestine"
    • Royal Palm

    • Royal Palm

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    • "The Royal Palm. Whose tall, slender grace is a marvel to all the world, Guadeloupe, French West Indies"
    • Baobab Tree

    • Baobab Tree

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    • "A baobab tree 86.5 feet in circumference: Victoria Falls"
    • Ceiba Tree

    • Ceiba Tree

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    • "Ceiba Tree, Queen's Park, Barbados, West Indies. Has enormous thick trunk and [small] height. Natives say "All wide and no long," and are superstitious about cutting down trees of this species. Found generally in West Indies."
    • Papaya

    • Papaya

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    • Papaya in British West Indies "Fruits show at base of leaves and stem. Like cantelopes and contain much pepsin."
    • Breadfruit Trees

    • Breadfruit Trees

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    • Fruit; Breadfruit

    • "Breadfruit Tree, Bridgetown, Barbados. Free front yard of a Barbados colored folk home. Fruit used as we use potatoes."
    • Expressing Palm Oil

    • Expressing Palm Oil

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    • Oil palm

    • "Native women expressing Palm oil by boiling the nuts in caldrons. This method produces the clearest oil, but many natives take easier method waiting for oil to leave nuts by decomposition"
    • Scarring Pine Trees

    • Scarring Pine Trees

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    • Pine trees

    • "Old style wasteful way of scarring pine trees in the southern woods"

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