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We next went out to collect the pots we had hung up on the seringa trees.
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The seringa, or India-rubber-tree, grows plentifully in some parts of Brazil, and many hundreds of the inhabitants are employed in the manufacture of shoes.
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He then covered the moulds to a sufficient thickness with the seringa juice, and dried them in the smoke as our shoes had been.
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The Seringa or India-Rubber Tree.
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"These are seringa trees," said Uncle Paul, pointing them out.
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The white cedar ( MeliaAzedarach) grows also along Zamia Creek, with casuarina, and a species of Leptospermum.
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A noble prideofIndia {Footnote: China tree: the melia azedaracha of botanists.
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I would not even wish the straggling PrideofIndia, and over-abundant lantana, away from this fairest of the island Edens.
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West Indianlilac berries were terribly bitter.
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"West Indianlilac." Harding nodded.
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He saw Ellie May peering at him from behind the chinaberrytree.
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The grandmother took her accustomed position behind a chinaberrytree, looking and listening.
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Ellie May stood behind a chinaberrytree, looking around the trunk at Lov.
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Dude snickered and stood behind a chinaberrytree so nobody could see him.
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Hildemara climbed the chinaberrytree, where she could keep watch.
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The Persianlilac, which lifts high in air its gay flax-coloured branches.
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The Persianlilac was very full and lasted a long time.
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Persianlilacs, syringas, labernums made thickets here and there and covered their heads with bloom.
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The Persianlilacs, weighed down with their heavy clusters of flowers, bent gracefully, like a row of courtiers.
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S. PERSICA ( PersianLilac).-Persia ,1640
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The mud was spotted here and there with the bright vermilion seeds from the beadtrees.
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The old grandmother had gone behind a china- berrytree again, awed by the sight.
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Ellie May continued to peer from behind the china- berrytree, trying to attract Lov's attention.
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The hedges show also the crimson-tasselled fruit of the barberry, no less ornamental than the service- berrytree.
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One fruit may puzzle strangers, it is the red berry of the cultivated service berrytree, and makes excellent preserve.
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Many times during the winter the sugar- berrytree was visited by a flock of cedar-birds that also wintered in the vicinity.
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They feed on the berries of the dogwood, chinatree and mistletoe, and are the jolliest lot of birds it is possible to imagine.
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A noble pride of India {Footnote: Chinatree: the melia azedaracha of botanists.
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On reaching the yard, we rested a long time on a settee under a group of chinatrees.
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The hall floor was covered to muffle the tread; not a sound reached her save the stirring of the Chinatrees outside.
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Outside was a small stone balcony, and beyond it a fringe of Chinatrees and the fields, desolate and empty in the moonlight.
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A northern whitecedar overshadowed the backyard, but there was no dog.
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The whole is covered with a double roof of bark of whitecedar.
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The others stood under an old whitecedar tree that shadowed all round.
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These were constructed from the trunk of a single tree, usually whitecedar.
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Thinner planks were made out of the whitecedar, which splits very freely.