tlie feconcf growth in jJjp'r// : arid Swglo tlie laft in M'^y ^nd 
both dry'd-^ Me w Pans over the Fire. 
The Tea Shrub being an ever-green, is in Flower trom 
Oifober to January J and the Seed is ripe in September 
Oiioher following, fo that one may gather both Flowers and 
Seed at the fame time 5 but for one frefli and full Seed, 
there area hundred nought 5 thefe make up the 2, forts of 
Fruit in Le Compters defcription ot Tea : as for his other 
fort, which he calls flymic Peafe, they were nothing but the 
young Buds of the Flowers not yet open. Its Seed-VefTels 
are really Tricapfnlnry each CapfnU containing one Nut or 
Seed, and altho two or one Capfula only comes to per- 
feftion, yet the Veftiges of the reft may be difcerned. It 
grows in a dry gravelly foil, on the fides of Hills in feve- 
ral places of this Ifland, without any cultivation. 
Le Compte is miftaken in faying fpag. 96.) that the Chi- 
nefes are wholly Strangers to the art of Grafting, for I have 
feen a great many of hisPara4oxical Tallow-Trees ingrafted 
here, befides fome other Trees. When they ingraft, they 
do not flit the Stock as we do, but cut a fmall flice off the 
outfide of the Stock, to which they japply the graft f being 
cut floping on one fide, agreeable to the flice cut from the 
Stock) bringing up the Bark of the flice upon the outfide 
of the Graft, they tye all together, covering with Straw and 
Mud as we do, 
The Commentator on Magalhen fcems doubtful in the 
length ot the Chinefe Che or Cubit. " Here they. have two 
forts, one of 13 Engtijb Inches, - which the 'Mer- 
chants commonly ufe ; the other is of eleven inthes, us*d 
by Carpenters , and alfo in Geographical meafures. 
Albeit F. Martini is cenfur*d by F. Magalhen iot fpelling 
a great njahy C^/>^y^ words with ng, Which tht !PomgHcJi 
and otKers have done with m, yet his way is. ilibre agree- 
able to the Englljh pronunciation, only in fome words the 
g may be left out, as in Pekin^ Nankin^ &c. 
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