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Mr. Robert Nunez Lyne, obtained a diploma and first class honours in 
the Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand; he 
has held the posts of Lecturer on Agriculture and Botany, Wellingore 
Hall Agricultural College (near — ws Lecturer on Agriculture 
under the Lincolnshire pomi Council. He is a member of the Royal 
Agricultural Society of Englan 
Chinese Liquorice.—In reference to the article in the Kew Bulletin 
(1894, pp. 141-146) Dr. Bretschneider draws attention to the par- 
ticulars respecting s7 — drug published by him in -a Botanicon 
Sinicum (Part iii., p. 1 
Liquorice, places of "—— :—Chili, Shantung, Shensi, Kans 
Newchwang exported in 1885 to other Chinese ports 1767 piculs, Tientsin 
exported 4576 pieuls, Chefoo exported 8690, Hankow paced 
In 1882 I sent some specimens of Chinese liquorize root em 
Shansi to Dr. Flückiger, who in the second edition of his Pharmocog- 
noste un 355) writes that -— is not able to distinguish it from Spanish 
liquorice of the first quality 
The liquorice root used in medicine in Europe is derived from 
-Giycyrrhiza glabra, L., indigenous in Southern Europe. The typical 
form of this supplies the Spanish liquorice, which is eonsidered to be 
‘The variety 
the best. glandulifera, which grows in Hun ngary and 
South Russia, yields dern Russian 1i liquorice ; his is aiso derived ` — 
G. echinata, L. i E 
Loureiro (F7. Cochin., dee states that Chinese roa x is 
yielded by G. echinata and glabra of the northern provinces of China. 
- my Karly wp: [A Fl. China, p. 145.) 
ge (Enum. Pl. Chine Bor., 97) Bpod G. glandulifera Tom 
the i hDNER of Peking and the Great Wal 
Przevalsky ( Mongolia, Tangut, &c., Engl. edition 1, 191) states that 
the root of G. uralensis, Fischer, one of the characteristic plants of the 
y the Chi 
Dates.—In reference to the notes on Date Cultivation iv Australia 
(Kew Bulletin, 1895, pp. 161-2) and Antigua (1895, pp. 26-28) the 
following brief account of what may iR considered the normal growth of 
the tree will be useful for comparison : 
bed from the Report for the year 1894-95 on the Trade of the 
an Consular Distrie ty F orman. Beluchistan (o. 1896, 
Ai Series, No. 1671; p. 7 
Dates grow to great aa in many parts of the country, notably . 
at Pahraj and Fanoch. The output could be easily doubled by planting 
fresh palm groves. 
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