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| | Birds and All Nature: Rice Paper |
 | | THE rice paper tree, one of the most interesting of the flora of China, has recently been successfully experimented with in Florida, where it now flourishes, with other subtropical and oriental species of trees and shrubs, say's the St. |
 | | The celebrated rice paper, the product of this queer tree, is formed of thin slices of the pith, which is taken from the body of the tree in beautiful cylinders several inches in length. |
 | | This operation makes a roll of extra-quality paper, the scroll being of equal thickness throughout, After a cylinder has thus been pared it is unrolled, and weights are placed upon it until the surface is rendered uniformly smooth throughout its entire length. |
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