Robert Abbott age 12, of Somarville

We get ebony from about 15 different trees$ most of them natives of tropical or semitropical regions  It is taken from the heartwood of the trunk, the old wood which has long since ceased to carry sap to the growing branches  The calls and fibers of this handsome wood era filled with gunny resin which makes the wood hard and adds a glossy metallic surface to ‑ah ebony carving 

 Most of the jet bleak ebonies coma from trees grown in India and Ceylon  Ebony trees grow also in Africa, the Philippines, Madagascar, Japan and South America  The persimmon tree which grows from Connecticut to the Southland also has a heart of hard ebony wood  It is used to make the hard wooden ands of golf clubs.