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WANDERINGS IN CHINA. 
Chap. II. 
which this useful tree is applied. Besides all this, it is 
most ornamental in the country where it grows. 
I am in hopes that one day we shall see this beautiful 
palm-tree ornamenting the hill-sides in the south of 
The Hemp Palm. 
'j England, and in other mild European countries. With 
this view I sent a few plants home to Sir William 
Hooker, of the Royal Gardens at Kew, with a request 
that he would forward one of them to the garden of His 
