DESCRIPTION OF PLATES. 
PuaTE I. Frontispiece. <A hillside covered with mitsumata paper plants, near Shizu- 
oka, Japan. 
PuaTe I]. Fig. 1.—Mitsumata plant two years after transplanting from nursery row. 
Fig. 2.—Three-year-old shoots rising from an old mitsumata stump, near 
Shizuoka. 
PuateE III. Fig. 1.—A bundle of stems of mitsumata after the paper-producing bark 
has been removed. Fig. 2.—Boards covered with drying sheets of mitsumata 
paper. 
PuaTe TV. Plants of the kan or summer udo growing in the field. From a photo- 
graph taken on the experiment station grounds of Marquis Matsudaira at Fukui, 
Japan, by Yendo. 
Puate VY. Fig. 1.—Young root cutting of the forcing udo after it has been planted for 
a week or two in the spring, showing the way the new shoot springs from the 
horizontally laid cutting. Farsari, photographer, Yokohama. Fig. 2.—Old root 
of the forcing udo after it has been long enough in the soil in spring to start well 
into growth. Farsari, photographer, Yokohama. Fig. 3.—Blanched young 
shoot of forcing udo, more than 2 feet in length, as taken from the forcing bed — 
in May. The white portion only is edible, the dark part being the old root, 
which produces, one after the other, several such edible shoots. Farsari, pho- 
tographer, Yokohama. : eas 
Puate VI. Fig. 1—Young wasabi plants ready to set out. The marketable roots 
look much like these. Fig. 2.—A patch of wasabi growing on a shady hillside. 
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