90 CULTIVATION AT JAPAN AND JAVA. 



the ground must be ploughed up between the bushes, and the 

 prunings buried and used as manure. Should the plant not 

 recover, then an extra pruning must take place, by cutting the 

 bushes down to within a foot and a half of the ground. They 

 will then look like single stems. 



In China it is said that by regular yearly cleaning, thinning 

 out, cutting round, and extra pruning, the shrubs maybe preserved 

 for sixty years. (Abstracted from the Handboek v. d. Kult. en 

 Fabrik. v. Thee.) 



