CULTURE of TREES. 3 o 3 



Canton (in which place only this fruit grows) 

 annually makes a hundred thoufand tel of 

 dried leickis. 



Tea (which they call cha, and which here- 

 abouts grows only upon an ifland dire&ly op- 

 pofite Canton) is efteemed for ftrengthening 

 weak lungs: the ifland is called Honam, and 

 the tea therefore has the name of Honam tea. 

 The bufhes, which were two or three feet 

 high, flood in rows on dry fandy hills. The 

 light-green foft leaves were plucked in March, 

 and roafted in iron kettles, and rolled up as 

 other teas are l . The harfh dark-green leaves 

 were left hanging. It feemed as if they had 

 taken too little pains, with thefe. fhrubs, for 

 near one half of them were dried up. 



The areca tree cannot grow far off Canton* 

 as I mould imagine by the frefh nuts which 

 were expofed for fale. At Ay nam were feve- 

 ral plantations of this tree, {landing in ground 

 that was moift and fat. The trees themfelves 

 are not unlike cocoa-trees, and have ftrait 

 Items. When the fruit was ripe, the fhells af- 

 fumed a burnt yellow colour, and then the 

 nuts, which are like nutmegs, are taken out, 

 dried, and fent to the north. 



' See note, vol. I. p. 250. 



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