ON CHINESE HUSBANDRY. 



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plants above classified, and the modes of preparing them as food. 

 The description and coloured representation of each plant occupy 

 two contiguous pages, and are easily found. The contents of the 

 sections are as follows : — 



Section 



46 — 50 Herbaceous plants, leaves edible . 



51 „ ,, roots „ 



52 „ „ seeds * „ : 

 ,, „ „ leaves and seeds edible 

 „ ,, ,, roots and leaves „ 

 ,, „ ,, stalks „ 

 „ „ ,, shoots and seeds ,, 



54 Woody plants, leaves edible 



55 „ „ seeds (or fruit) edible 



56 ,, ,, leaves and seeds „ 

 ,, „ „ flowers „ 

 ,, „ „ flowers and leaves edible 



„ ,, „ flowers, leaves, and seeds edible 



„ ,, „ leaves, bark, and seeds „ 



., ,, oflshoots from I'oots ,, 



57 Orain and Pulse, seeds edible 



58 Fruiting plants, fruit „ 

 ., „ „ leaves and fruit edible 

 „ „ „ roots „ 

 ,, „ „ roots and fruit „ . 

 „ Culinary plants, leaves edible 



59 ,, „ „ „ . . 

 „ „ „ roots „ 

 „ „ ,, roots and leaves edible 

 ,, „ ,, leaves and seeds „ 

 „ „ ,, roots and seeds „ 



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24 



20 



12 



23 



3 



1 



41 



20 



8 



5 



1 



2 



2 



1 



20 



14 



5 



2 



o 



14 



19 



2 



4 

 5 

 1 



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The above list is, for some reason or other, short of the 

 preceding summaiy hj four. 



Sect. LX. This concludes the work with drawings and 

 descriptions of sixty-three wild plants, edible in case of famine. 



As to the style of description, the following account of the 

 native Chinese Fig (Sect. LV.) is a specimen of the way in which 

 each pictured plant is described. From my own experience, the 

 native P'ig of China is very poor, and hardly advanced beyond 

 the wild state. It would be a real benefit to send some of our 

 European Figs to Hong Kong. 



" The flowerless fruit grows in the hills and wilds. At present 

 it is also planted in gardens. The leaves somewhat like those of 

 the Vine, but larger, stiffer, and thicker; divided into three lobes. 



* The term she is occasionally applied to either seed or fruit. It means 

 the essential product of the plant. 



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