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stated that the fibre of the plant is made into paper, and some even | 
contend that all the Rice-paper is made of fibre. This, however, — 
cannot be the case, as the best sheets, when examined, will be found à 
to consist entirely of medullary tissue. I send you an exact tracing of 4 
the figure. It may prove useful in identifying the plant. I have only — 
to remark that I believe the bend does not denote that it is a creeping 4 
or winding plant, but is a liberty taken by the artist; and that the q 
various appendages are intended for hair, though their coarseness may M 
induce any one, at first sight, to consider them as spines or thorns. 1 
The afternoon of the 13th of December I devoted to visiting some - 1 
Chinese gardens. One of them, being the establishment of a rich [ 
nurseryman, and entirely devoted to his private amusement, was kept - 
in beautiful order. It was adorned with summer-houses, and artificial 
ponds filled with numerous plants of Nelumbium speciosum, bridges, 
rock-work, and thousands of dwarf shrubs and trees, cultivated in 1 
glazed pots. The whole was on so grand a scale that it must have M 
cost a great sum : if the old nurseryman made all the money by his - 
trade, gardening must be a more profitable employment in China than - 
it is in more civilized countries.—In the different nurseries there 
existed very little variety among the potted plants. Rows and rows 
contained nothing save Oranges, Roses, Celosia cristata, and Chinese 
Anthemis of many different sorts, but inferior, I thought, to those 
=~ cultivated in European gardens.  Serissa fœtida was also plentiful, and 
* generally trimmed into various figures,—pagodas, junks, animals, &c. 
I observed several imitations of the deer: the antlers and every part of 
-the animal so nicely grown that I could not help admiring them. 
T After a few days' stay at Canton I returned to Hong-Kong. On the 
~ 92nd of December the * Herald’ took her departure from Victoria, and, 
calling on the 29th at the island of Aor, she reached on the following 
day the harbour of Singapore. : 
ipe sende (To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
The following neat and just tribute to poor Douglas is translated 
from the German edition (published in the past year under the imme- 
