EAMIE. 



in warm temperate climates rather than in the Tropics. Unless 

 grown under irrigation or on moist bottom lands along rivers it re- 

 quires at least 40 inches of well-distributed rainfall. Its roots are 



Fig. 1.— Second growth of ramie, showing the crop ready for harvest two months after cutting the 



first crop. 



injured where the 



ground 



freezes more than 3 inches. 



There 

 should be a period of at least five months free from frosts. In the 

 Tropics it grows throughout the year unless checked by drought, but 

 its productiveness is not thereby very much mcreased. 



[Cir. 103] 



