ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 


BULLETIN 
OF 
MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 


No. 64.] APRIL. | „Tiso. — 

CCXXXVIIL—FIJI GINGER. 








(Zingiber officinale, Rosc. ) fe 
The ginger plant is' not known in a traly wild dep es it is believed e 
| -to bea native of tropical Asia. It is now cultivated in all the warmer . 
countries: of the Sem Ginger is used as a penei and as à © 
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to be taken up at the end of the season of ut when the leaves 
(0. preserved: ginger. in syrup is no doubt included under x Sonne but 
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. . In many new colonies an attempt is generally made to grow ginger. 
The. plant is readily propagated, and provided the soil is good and not - 
. too dry, the crop is abundant. ‘There are, however, practical ‘ificulties 
- experienced in preparing the rhizomes for m d, in some instances, 
the cultivation has become stationary or been abandoned on that 
account. Apparently this difficulty has been lately felt. at Fiji. LM 
.  .&id of Kew was sought, and as shown in the follo idence | 
|... there is some s that Fiji ginger a become a an article. of ll 
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vM 7 Rovat Ganoexs Eie. to Cotóxtar Ornct.- : 
| Sr, EU Fm "flo yal Gardens Kaw; Maro á B, 1892 
d IAM [ desired by by Mr. LE to inform you that at- the 
r request of Sir John B. Thurston, K.C 5 oversee. of Fiji, there i 
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