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is no occasion to trim or to water them." Another 

 gives the same account of the mode of sowing the 

 seed, but makes no mention of binding the plants. 

 He then proceeds as follows: — "When the aged 

 plants become dry and exhausted, cut them clown 

 to the roots, and they will shoot again. The leaves 

 may afterwards be gathered in the second or third 

 year. In planting, it is unnecessary to take slips 

 for that purpose, but simply to cut down the [wild] 

 trees, and transplant the old roots. In the second 

 or third spring the leaves shoot forth in sufficient 

 abundance to admit of their being gathered. The 

 shrubs require neither lopping, watering, nor turn- 

 ing up the ground about the roots. They, how- 

 ever, require weeding ; and the old roots must be 

 watered for a few days at the time of transplanting, 

 when they never require it more." 



I shall now conclude with the Rev. Vicar-Gene- 

 ral Carpina's account (the Spanish missionary so 

 frequently alluded to in these pages), which may 

 be considered the mode adopted in the part of the 

 province where he resided, at Fogan, about 240 

 miles south-east of the Bohea country. 



" With respect to the duration of the plants, 

 in places which are suitable to them, and where 

 animals cannot destroy them, they will last fifty 

 years and more. When they are too old, if the 

 soil is rzc/i, they are cut down close to the roots, 

 which is done at the winter solstice, and in the 

 following spring they shoot out vigorously. But 



