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second were in connexion with the Paris Universal Exhibition of 1889; 
the results were also published in the Kew Bulletin (1889, :pp. 208- 
278; 284-287). The third was not a Government “isn app eer ge 
nce trials of 1891 took place at Gennevilliers, nea Set on the 
e plantation belonging to the Société Agricole de la Ram The 
atk cultivated was China g rass (Behmeria nivea), and it was aaa 
stood aa its Agius: had the advantage of a supply of Paris sewage. 
The grow the crop was extrem ‘ly vigorous and in that respect left 
nothing * diane The stems pnongib to the first frost, which, however, 
pae not spp to injure the ro 
x machines were submitted T ean of these only the four 
which Svar rewards require notice 
Faure Nihit 
This received a gold medal. It admitted of being worked by hand, 
but the most E Gto noe were obtained when driven by a steam 
mechani 
table from which oe were drawn in leaf-end foremost by two revolving 
rollers. Behind these was the decorticating apparatus. This consisted 
of a drum carrying twelve beaters which appeared to be made of simple 
iron. The bed against which these beaters worked was a quarter of 
a cylinder, the radius of which was smaller than that of the drum 
rrying the beaters. Th3 space between these and the surface of the 
bed therefore varied. The beaters first strike the stems, and, without 
injuring the fibrous cortex, break t y core into segments 
about an inch long As the stem passes on into the wider cars the 
d 
dry at any SAREM from the machine tha t may be desirable. The 
(when died) of ribbons in six minutes (or 400 lbs. of dry ribbons for a 
day of 1 am; these ribbons after degumming yielded 1} lbs. of 
pa or fs -G r cent. 
he Faure machine of this type has, however, been spora 
abandoned by its inventor. The form at present in use will b 
desorbed subsequently. 
De Landtsheer Machine. 
This was not materially different in principle from that exhibited at 
pores competitions. lt is described in the Kew Bulletin for 1883 
(pp. 2 5-276) and 1889 (pp. 271-272). It received a gold medal 
partly as e ground of the long services of the inventor to the solution 
of the problem. 
