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At the trials in September last the stare of Kew able to 
be present as representative for India. The sine place at 
Gennevilliers, a suburb of Paris, in a field where Ramie (the white- 
b o 
leaved sort) had been grown specially for the purpose. After the trial 
of the decorticators had been completed the ribbons were passed 
on to be treated by the chemical processes so as to test i 
the amount of filasse (or marketable fibre ready for spinning) produced 
by each system. The chemical processes have necessarily occupied 
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XXVIII—RAMIE OR RHEA IN IRELAND. 
[K. B., 1892, p. 251.] 
What little interest is being taken at aie in extracting Ramie 
Fibre from Boehmeria nivea appears be centred at: Belfast. 
a applications have been "ceived at ee for Ramie stems 
tact winter the plants at Kew tere “yielded a poor crop of stems. It 
may be useful to state that investigators of Ramie in Ireland could 
very well obtain stems either from the Royal Botanical Gardens at 
Glasnevin, or from growers of the sete in the mild climate of the South 
of Ireland. . F. W. Moore, Keeper of the Glasnevin Gardens, writes 
that the plant is “ quite rai ” with him, and he would be pleased to 
“oe mat as far as his resources allow, to those who apply to him 
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XXIX.—RAMIE MACHINE TRIALS AT NEW 
ORLEANS. : 
[K. B., 1892, pp. 304-306.] 
The latest information connected with the extraction of fibre from Ramie 
(Boehmeria nivea, Hk. & Arn., and Boehmeria nivea var. tenacissima, 
w Orl P 
September last, and ‘the Report of the Board of Experts, acting as jury, 
has just been publish ed.* 
a U: f Agriculture. Division of Statisties. New 
: apani No. 90, September Ar Goober 1892. Washington Government 
Printing Office, pp. 347-354. oe 
