134 



Jas. Murray 

 J. Nathan 

 J. Salmon 

 J. Samuels 

 R Percher 



Fibre cut with knife 

 and stripped 

 2i hrs. 



Stripped from the 

 root in 

 2§ hrs. 





lbs. 



ozs. 



lbs. 



ozs. 



Jas. Murray 



6 



9 



7 



13 



Jno. Nathan 



5 



5 



5 



2 



R. Manley 



5 







6 



3 



S. Roden 



6 



11 



5 



12 



J. Salmon 



3 



10 



4 



10 



R. Percher 



2 



6 



3 



10 



Z. Crawford 



3 



12 



3 



13 





33 



53 



36 



15 



Stripped from sticks 

 ready cut in 3 hrs. 



Fibre stripped from 

 the root in 3 hrs. 



lbs, 

 7 

 6 

 4 

 4 

 4 



15 

 7 

 14 



8 

 2 



lbs. ozs. 

 9 10 



3 



14 

 11 

 6 



27 14 



32 12 



DIRECTIONS FOR PLANTING RAMIE 



By Wm. Cradwick, Superintendent of Hope Gardens, 



The plants as sent from the Gardens are ready for planting without 

 further preparation. 



If the land is such that ploughs and cultivators can be used, 

 thoroughly plough up the whole of the land, then form beds five feet 

 wide, with walks between the beds eighteen inches wide, the beds can 

 be any reasonable length but intervals should be left for the passage of 

 carts, &c. ; raise the beds by taking soil from the space left for the 

 walks and throwing it on the beds. This will increase the depth of soil 

 for the plants to grow in, and by lowering the walks make them serve 

 as drains, the depth of which would be regulated by the rainfall of the 

 district. If manual labour has to be utilised simply fork up the space 

 to be used as the bed, leave the walks hard, but the top soil can be 

 shovelled off and put on the beds in the same way, to form the walks 

 and drains ; i<t must be borne in mind that this is the best of the soil 

 and will enrich the beds. 



The soil must be thoroughly pulverised, the plants can then be 

 planted by opening a hole with the hand just deep enough to cover 

 the plant about half-an-inch, not deeper ; cover the plants lightly with 

 the hand but do not press the soil or only very slightly, if the weather 

 is dry ; do not plant nearer the edge of the beds than six inches, put 

 the plants in nine inches apart, or if on very rich soil a foot apart. 



Keep the young plants quite free from weeds by hand weeding. The 



