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Messrs. W. anv D. Harvest to ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
Dowgate eie eue Thames Street, E.C., 

. Dear Sim, rch 3, 1892. ie 
: E have examined the iene at Fiji ginger, "rx believe is 
esent commercial value in London to be about 34s. to 36s. per cwt. —— 
The aati is very inferior to the ordinary ant India don: or that — 
produced in the island of Jamaica, being rather hard and unsuitable for — . 
many purposes for which ginger is now v used. The ginger y eo 
Japan bears a strong resemblance to ee sample. 
e are, &c. 
Giga} W. akp D. HARVEST. 


We may remark that the value of East India ginger during the la 
two or three years has advanced from 100 to 120°/,. CST 
The following instructions ia regard to the peto and curing of 
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bea gans impoverisher of land. In such a soil it grows so MIT 
that a hard orlarge spreading root will weigh near a pound. It is, 
owever, remarked that what is produ "we from a clayey, tenacious soil 
shrinks less in scalding, while such as is raised in richer, fr free, blac 
moulds loses considerably in that oeil: „The land intended for th 
ire, of it is first well cleaned with the hoe, trenei 
and planted about the month of March or April. . It attains its full. 
" height and flowers about August or Se ptember, and fades about the 

being d divided into Pads of about 100 lbs. each, they are packed 3 
the n market ; this is called the black ginger. The manner. 






-becomes much i impre egaated v with the juices of he 
- The white sort differs but little from the black re The dittersnes’ 
there arises wholly from the methods of cur popen ; the white is never — 
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