86 NOTES ON THE AGRICULTURE, BOTANY 



has summer rice, the other the winter rice. At first the 

 summer rice is planted and when it has grown to 30 cm., 

 the winter rice is set between the ranges. The summer rice 

 ripens in July and after its harvest only the winter rice 

 remains, which is ready in October. By its rapid growth the 

 summer rice is much valued by the farmers, who sow it 

 calculating to receive a new crop quickly. 



Every kind of summer rice is very cheap and is eaten 

 by the poorest class. This rice is characterised by not very 

 transparent grains, frequently of a whitish colour particularly 

 over the seed-bud. They are brittle, farinaceous and are boiled 

 soft. The hull of the grains is of an oblong shape, varying 

 in size, of a light yellow colour, hairy in the upper part and 

 with rubes not sharply expressed. 



Near Foochow the following kinds of summer rice were 

 examined : — 



1. — Big Summer Bice. — ^c %k ■¥■ (see Fig. I. 1). This 

 kind has big, light yellow hulls very wide in the upper part. 

 The length of the hulls is 7-8 mm., the breadth up to 4 mm. 

 The grains are big, brittle, whitish, of 5-6 mm. in length and 

 2.5 mm. in breadth. 



2. — Pear Summer Bice. — ^ -¥■ (see Fig. I. 2). The 

 hulls and grains resemble the big summer rice, but the hulls 

 of the pearl rice are not so wide in the upper part. Pearl 

 rice is considered to be one of the best sorts of summer rice. 



3. — "White Eye Brow" or late summer rice. — 6 !■! 

 or $t •¥• (see Figs. I. 3, 5). Among the summer rices the 

 late summer kind is the longest. The hulls are of a 

 light yellow colour, and sometimes have white beards of no 

 more than one cm. in length. The hulls are of 7-9 mm. 

 in length and 2.5-3 mm. in breadth. This rice is harvested 

 in July. 



4. — Sixty Days Summer Bice. — ^ "t* B M (see Fig. I. 8) 

 The seedling of this rice before being transplanted to the 

 rice fields grows for 3-4 weeks and it is called ''60 days rice" 

 for the reason that after only 60 days the transplanted rice 

 is ripe. By its hulls this kind much resembles the hulled 

 pearl summer rice. The unhulled seeds are 6-8 mm. in length, 

 2.5-3.5 mm. in breadth. The grains are brittle, farinaceous 

 and are not much valued by Chinese. 



Winter rice. — HH ^ The winter rice is also planted in 

 spring with the summer rice, but after the ripening of the 

 latter the winter rice stays in the fields 2-3 months longer, 

 so for its ripening it takes 4J-6J months. After the inunda- 

 tions in May and June, which often destroy the fields with 

 summer and winter rice, the winter rice is planted for the 

 second time and it is harvested in the middle or end of 



