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CONTENTS. 



CHAPTEE XVIII. 



A celebrated Buddhist temple — Scenery around it — Its trees and 

 shrubs — Buddhist worship — Leave the temple — Beflections on 

 Buddhism — Important station for Christian missionaries — Pri- 

 vations they would have to endure — Boman Catholics and their 

 labours — Christian charity — Protestant missionaries — Their views 

 as to the interior of China — A day-dream of China opened — 

 Bamboo paper — A mandarin on a journey — Town of Ching-hoo 

 — Engage a boat for Nechow — Beturn to Shanghae . Page 302 



CHAPTEE XIX. 



Tea-plants, &c, taken to Hong-kong — Shipped for India — I sail 

 again for the north — Shanghae gardens in spring — " South Gar- 

 den"— Double-striped peach and other plants — Moutan gardens 



— Fine new varieties of the tree-pseony — Chinese method of pro- 

 pagating them — Mode of sending them to Canton — Value there 



— Introduction to Europe — Size in England — Azalea gardens — 

 Skimmia Beevesiana — New Azaleas — The "Kwei-wka" — -The 

 Glycine — Its native hills — Chinese mode of training it — The 

 yellow Camellia .315 



CHAPTEE XX. 



Safe arrival of tea-plants in India — Means taken in China to engage 

 tea-manufacturers — I visit Chusan — My lodgings — A mandarin 

 who smoked opium — His appearance at daylight — A summer 

 morning in Chusan — An emperor's edict — The Yang-mae — 

 Beauty of its fruit — City of Ting-hae — Poo-too, or Worshipping 

 Island — Ancient inscriptions in an unknown language — A Chinese 

 caught fishing in the sacred lake — He is chased by the priests — 

 The bamboo again — The sacred Nelumbium — My holidays expire 



— Collections of tea-seeds and plants made — Return to Shanghae 



— Tea-manufacturers engaged — We bid adieu to the north of 

 China . . 340 



