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BULT^ETIN" 



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NEW YORK 



BOTANICAL 



GARIJEN. 



DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 



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About 13 years ago much interest was taken in the subject of 

 Ramie, and notes were published in the Bulletin* for the guidance 

 of planters ; now again some inquiries are being made, and as the 

 above-mentioned Bulletin is out of print, some of the notes are 

 here republished with the addition of the latest information in the 

 form of a lecture and discussion at the Society of Arts last March. 

 Later still Mr. Hubert J. Boeken has published a pamphlet dis- 

 cribing a new machine for decorticating Ramie stems, manufactured 

 by Boeken & Co., of Diiren, Germany and offered for sale at the 

 moderate price of £60. 



Description — This plant belongs to the Nettle Family {Urticacece). 

 It grows to a height of from 4 to 8 feet. The leaves are alternate, 

 toothed, 3-nevved, broadly ovate, rough above, snow-white on the 

 under surface in one variety, greenish in another. The flowers 



* Bulletin of t.^o Dotanioal Dc]nirtment, Jamaica, Marcli and April, 1S94. 



