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Director of Kew was enabled to attend the trials and prepare reports 
embodying the results for the information of the India се. A 
summary of these reports was afterwards published in the Kew Bulletin 
for November and December 1888, and November and December 1889. 
At the trials in September last the Director of Kew was able to be 
present as representative for India, and the results, which have just 
been worked out, will, by permission of the Secretary of State for 
India in Council, be shortly published in the Kew Bulletin. The 
trials took place this year at Gennevilliers, a suburb of Paris, in 
a field where Ramie (the white-leaved sort) had been grown specially 
for the purpose. After the trial of the decorticators had been com- 
pleted the ribbons were afterwards passed on to be treated by the 
ocesses во as to test ex actly the amount of filasse (or 
estimate being formed of the advance which has been made towards 
solving the difficulties hitherto connected with the Ramie question. 
