jujube

paste is really a mixture of gum arabic and sugar, slightly colored. tree or shrub, with dark-purple berries, which have a strong and peculiar flavor, and are much used for flavoring gin. The common juniper is found in Europe, the north of Asia, and the northern parts of North America. It attains no great height, being in general only a shrub from 2 to 6 feet high, but in favorable circumstances it becomes a tree from 15 to 30 feet in height. The fruit takes two years to ripen. Virgin i an juniper, or the red cedar of North America, attains a height of from 30 to 50 feet; and the wTood, which is of a beautiful red color, is highly prized by turners, and is also largely used for cigar-boxes and lead pencils. It is about 88,000 miles diameter, eleven times that of the earth, and rotates in le than 10 hours, its surface at the equator moving 28 times as fast as the earth’s surface. Its distance from the sun is 485,000,000 miles. which are very extensively cultivated in India, especially in Bengal. Both plants are annuals, in height from 10 to 14 feet, with yellow flowers and smooth leaves. The stem is erect, smooth, and cylindrical, and the inner bark is separated from it by steeping in water. The fibre is of a yellow or buff color, comparatively strong, easily spun, and po e ing a shining surface. It is largely used for making coarse cloth for bagging and sacks, and in the manufacture of carpets, tarpaulin, backings for floorcloth, manilla paper, etc. Jute has been woven into various fabrics in Bengal from a remote period, and there are now many jute factories in India. (See Gunny.) extending the whole length of the tube. One end of the tube has a small opening to serve as an eye-gla , and the other end has two gla es, little pieces of colored gla lying loosely between