Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Wood Engraving - Original antique print
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print - actual 1894
- Publisher: D. Appleton & Co.,
New York, 5 Bond Street
- Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Light age toning of paper.
- Dimensions: 7 x 10.5 inches (17,5 x 26 cm), including blank margins (borders) around the image.
- Paper weight: 2-3 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Notes: 1.
Green color 'border' around the print in the photo is a contrasting
background on which the print was photographed. 2. The print detail is sharper than the photo of the print.
Original Narrative:
- Ceiba
Trees near Bolivar, Venezuela: Sooner or later South America will
supply the gardens of Europe with other economic plants not yet
acclimatised, such as the quinoa, a species of chenopodium, whose seeds
when ground yield a kind of bread ; the arracacha root, which resembles
celery; mate ("Paraguay tea"), which takes the place of tea in
Argentina and South Brazil ; perhaps, also, the ceiba (cheese-tree),
which attains a great size in the Bolivar district, Venezuela. The
industries have received from South America the sap of various rubber
plants ; and medicine is indebted to it for, amongst other products,
such drugs as ipecacuanha ; tolu balm ; cinchona, which dispels fevers;
and the coca leaf, which allays pain and the pangs of hunger. In return
the South American continent has been enriched by nearly all the
alimentary and industrial species of Europe and Asia. The banana spread
so rapidly in the hot regions that most naturalists supposed it to be
indigenous ; it was introduced into the New World by the now almost
forgotten bishop, Thomas de Berlanga, the same benefactor of his kind
to whom we owe the discovery of the Galapagos Islands.
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