We were shown a species of banana, called abaca, the finer filaments of which, mixed with silk, are manufactured into native cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Eastern Seas] Reference

The fibres of abaca leaves are called "Manila hemp.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

To date, some 17 diseases of abaca have been recorded.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

It is obtained chiefly from a variety of banana called abaca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

To improve the growth of abaca, apply annually 100-200 kg N and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

There is no need to bury them since the roots of abaca are shallow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

When cut open, corms of infected abaca exhibit reddish-violet color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

The product was made from powder coated iron frame with abaca rope weaving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tour Eiffel Lamp] Reference

Assuming that there is no intercropping, establishing a hectare of abaca costs P27,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

No income can be expected from an abaca farm during the first and second years of planting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

During this period. the direct costs incurred in a hectare of abaca plantation is about 8,000/yr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Compared to banana, abaca has more slender stalk as well as smaller, narrower and more pointed leaves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

By 1918 there were ten thousand Japanese settlers working over half the abaca plantations in the Davao region.    From Wordnik.com.  [井の中の蛙 » Japanese Diaspora at ASPAC » Print] Reference

A distinguishing dark line on me right hand side of the upper surface of the leaf blade is pronounced in abaca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

After preparing me land, mark the places (where abaca will be planted) with bamboo stakes or other suitable materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

We forgot our bruises, balding pates, the limp in our steps, the rheumatism, lost teeth, squint eyes, even the abaca strands in our hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-08-01] Reference

DA experts bewail low interest in expanding abaca plantations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Davao Today] Reference

Fabrics are made from organic sources such as bamboo, hemp, abaca, ramie and linen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Furniture Today Business News] Reference

Made from abaca fiber, it is a tremendously tough, with a feel remarkably like vellum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Patrol] Reference

One seldom sees the malong or the abaca fabric incorporated in today's cultural oddity.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to Gandhi home acquired by French tourism firm] Reference

Manila folders are so named because of Manila hemp, or abaca, from which they were originally made.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Bottled of wine rolled with abaca fibers rope as deocration - alcoholic wines and local wine products.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Articles related to New Zealand proposes new rules on alcohol sales] Reference

The black rigging and that made from abaca in Balayan for the ships and galleys will amount to four thousand pesos.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 14 of 55 1606-1609 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century] Reference

Particularly plenteous here are the fibrous plants, and abaca forms in its prepared state one of the most important exports of the islands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Four Young Explorers or, Sight-Seeing in the Tropics] Reference

"However, the richest products of our Philippine Islands are abaca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fil and Filippa Story of Child Life in the Philippines] Reference

Keep the abaca farm clean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Identified pests attacking abaca are brown aphids.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 7] Reference

Clare comes in carrying an armful of abaca fiber.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time Traveler's Wife]

And the capital of the Philippines, Manila, has given us abaca tree).    From Wordnik.com.  [Visual Thesaurus : Online Edition] Reference

Mostly abaca and okra.    From Wordnik.com.  [slowly she turned] Reference

Arts n Crafts: index. html; Arts n Crafts; abaca.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random feeds from Syndic8.com] Reference