DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 



Plate I. Frontispiece. A hillside covered with mitsnuiata paper plants, near Shizu- 

 oka, Japan. 



Plate II. Fig. 1. — Mitsumata plant two years after transplanting from nursery row. 

 Fig. 2. — Three-year-old shoots rising from an old mitsumata stump, near 

 Shizuoka. 



Plate III. Fig. 1. — A bundle of stems of mitsumata after the paper-producing bark 

 has been removed. Fig. 2. — Boards covered with drying sheets of mitsumata 

 paper. 



Plate IV. Plants of the kan or summer udo growing in the field. From a photo- 

 graph taken en the experiment station grounds of Marquis Matsudaira at Fukui, 

 Japan, by Yendo. 



Plate V. Fig. 1. — Young root cutting of the forcing udo after it has been planted for 

 a week or two in the spring, showing the way the new shoot springs from the 

 horizontally laid cutting. Farsari, photographer, Yokohama. Fig. 2. — Old'root 

 of the forcing udo after it has been long enough in the soil in spring to start well 

 into growth. Farsari, photographer, Yokohama. Fig. 3. — Blanched young 

 shoot of forcing udo, more than 2 feet in length, as taken from the forcing bed 

 in May. The white portion only is edible, the dark part being the old root, 

 which produces, one after the other, several such edible shoots. Farsari, pho- 

 tographer, Yokohama. 



Plate VI. Fig. 1. — Young wasabi plants ready to set out. The marketable roots 

 look much like these. Fig. 2. — A patch of wasabi growing on a shady hillside. 



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