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INCREASE OF COLLECTIONS. 
Chap. IX. 
CHAPTER IX. 
Leave Yedo — Mendicant nuns— Place of execution — Its appearance 
in the days of Kaunpfer — Visit to a famous temple — Field crops 
by the way — Begging priests — Pear-trees — Holy water — Temple 
of Tetstze — Its priests and devotees — Inn of “ Ten Thousand Cen- 
turies”— Kind reception — Waiting-maids and refreshments — 
Scenes on the highway — Relieved from my yakoneen guard - 
New plants added to my collections — Names of the most valuable 
— Ward’s cases, their value — Plants shipped for China — Devout 
wishes for their prosperous voyage. 
While engaged in making observations on the 
city of Yedo and the country around it, I had been 
daily adding to my collections of new trees and 
shrubs. Now and then a bit of ancient lacquer- 
ware, or a good bronze, took my fancy, and was 
carefully put by. The gardens I have already 
described were visited frequently, and each time 
something new was discovered and brought away. 
Mr. J. G. Veitch, the son of one of our London 
nurserymen, had also been in Yedo, endeavouring 
to procure new plants for his father, and conse- 
quently our wants in this way were generally 
known amongst the people. Almost every morn- 
ing, during my stay at the Legation, collections of 
plants were brought for sale, and it was seldom 
that I did not find something amongst them of an 
