Shy, determined Chinese financier K.P. Chen stuck a feather in his cap last week. From Chungking he wired Manhattan’s Universal Trading Corp. to pay the final installment on a $22,000,000 ...

The leaves of trees grown in this area come in many shapes and sizes. But the leaves of the tung tree were different. They were heart-shaped, and in March the trees bloomed in a bright pink variegated ...

QUESTION: I have been given several seedlings of a tung oil tree. I am interested in growing them because I need quick shade near a new structure. What are the negatives associated with this tree?

THE establishment of the tung oil industry in the United States has been so successful during the last few years that a move is now being made to expand it on such a scale that America will cease to ...

THIS tree (Aleurites fordii Hemsl.), an inhabitant of China, produces the Chinese wood oil of commerce, the oil being used in the manufacture of paints and varnishes owing to its rapid drying ...