NATURAL PRODUCTIONS. 
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It occupies the same position on these hills as 
the Chinese tallow-tree (Stillingia sebifera) does 
in Chekiang. It grows to about the same size, 
and, curiously enough, it produces the same effect 
upon the autumnal landscape by its leaves chang- 
ing from green into a deep blood-red colour as 
they ripen before falling off. Some camphor-trees 
( Laurus camphora) of enormous size were observed 
about the temples on the outskirts of Nagasaki, 
and Cryptomeria japonica was a very common tree 
on all the hill-sides. The latter is often used as 
a fence round gardens, and a very pretty one it 
makes. When I first saw it used for this purpose, 
it struck me that something of the same kind 
might be done with it at home, now that it is 
so common in every nursery. The Japanese man- 
age it much in the same way as we do our yew 
hedges ; and when kept regularly clipped it is not 
only exceedingly pretty, but it also is so dense 
that nothing can get through it. The tea-plant 
is also common on these hill-sides, but the great 
tea country of Japan is 200 or 300 miles further 
to the northward, near the famous Miaco, where 
the Spiritual Emperor resides. 
At this season the tea was just coming into 
flower, so that I was enabled to procure speci- 
mens for the herbarium. It is no doubt identical 
with the China plant, and may have been intro- 
duced from China ; although, as the productions of 
the two countries are very similar in character, it 
may be indigenous. In its mode of growth and 
