While it is a very slow-growing tree, there is some consolation in the fact that it usually grows in barren, rocky country, unsuitable for agriculture, and therefore wholesale clearings are not made as is the case with many other timbers. At the same time it does not readily reafforest.

In one sequence, a light bulb in frying pan turns into an egg that, by the use of reverse motion, seems to unfry itself and leap back into the shell […]

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Another tool for small areas is called a cavex rake, or thatch rake. These hand tools are fine for a small plot.