Abacá

Regarding the tobacco monopoly, abolished in 1883, I shall have some remarks to make later.

An important and world-famed article is Manila hemp, or abaca, a product of the Musa textilis.

It is remarkable that although there are the most various species of the Musa flourishing all over the tropics and in warm climates generally, the Musa textilis appears to thrive to the best advantage only in the Philippines.

Attempts to grow the plant in other places have been uniformly unsuccessful.

Like its better-known relative, the edible banana, Musa paradisiaca, the stem of the plant is formed by the leaf stalks, in the center of which again is the blossom stem.

You know, Anastasia, at its simplest, a song form is A-B-A.

Sometimes you have the bridge A-B-A-C-A.

Your songs have, like, other letters.

Yeah.