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it -is brought to Hankow, the great mart for drugs that are 
produced in the western’ provinces. rom this port about 
100 tons are annually exported by steamer to the other treaty 
ports. The value of export is put down in the Customs 
returns at about £18,000; the price varies much from year to 
oo and with the joel of the bark. 
the Customs List of Medicines mention is made of a small 
export, about 100 pounds annually, from. oe and this is said 
to be produced in the province of Kw: 
On my irip to the mountains atid i north-west of eye 
I was not fortunate enough to come upon the tree in the wil 
state, but the natives report that it is occasionally to be met with 
wild in the woods on the great mountain range that form the 
water parting of the Han and Yangtze rivers ; and I was regaled 
with a story of a lawsuit which had been Dh by a man in the 
ang district, against the purchaser of a tree which had been 
Ty Oh: sold as firewood, but turned out to be the valuable 
Tu Chung 
Tt was ee in the Rae eee (1. ¢. p. 93) that “ Hucommia 
ulmoides promises to be hardy at Kew.” As will be seen from 
the following note b Me W. S. hea, the Assistant Giatow, 
this expectation has been fully realised :— 
Eucommia ulmoides has been grown out of mee at Kew with- 
out any protection for the last six years. one of the winters 
during that period have been very severe, bu t on one or two 
occasions about 20° Fahr. of frost have been registered. h 
plants have never been in the least affected, and I have very little 
doubt but ene the species will prove quite hardy in most parts of 
Great Brita 
It is a vigorous, free- rooting plant and bears ey reg well, 
It will, I believe, thrive in any soil of average quality, but seems 
~ _brefer a rich light t loam. In such a soil at Kew, young trees 
uck from cuttings five years ago are now 6 feet high and make 
ie 2 feet to 24 feet long in one season. 
It can be propagated easily by means of cuttings, and with these 
July or early August, insert them in pots of very sandy soil (the 
usual mixture for cuttings), and then place the pots in a house or 
frame where slight bottom-heat can be afforded. The cuttings 
should be made of shoots in eg gardeners term a “ ogee a 
condition. They will take root in a few weeks and can then, 
after a “‘ hardening-off ” pestis i planted in nursery pode s. The 
second method is to make the cuttings of the leafless wood in 
November and dibble them in sandy soil in a cool frame or out of 
doors under a cloche or hand-light. They will take root the 
following spring. Ps re method is not so quick as the other, nor 
have we found it so sure. 
We have had no o heinics with plants raised from seed, but 
we find that with plants raised from cuttings it is necessary, in 
order to make them assume a tree-like form, that they should be 
pruned for the first few years. This pruning consists in keeping 
