. A residence among the Chinese: inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856. from the old cityof Shao-shing-foo, which will be found noticed inmy Journey to the Tea Countries. The Ping-shuy district is becoming a place of considerableimportance—the teas are beautifully made there ;and as it is much nearer to Shanghae than Hwuy-chow, the land-carriage is considerably less inamount. Indeed, the whole of these Chekiang tea-districts have received great advantages from theopening of Shanghae to foreign trade; their
. A residence among the Chinese: inland, on the coast, and at sea. Being a narrative of scenes and adventures during a third visit to China, from 1853 to 1856. from the old cityof Shao-shing-foo, which will be found noticed inmy Journey to the Tea Countries. The Ping-shuy district is becoming a place of considerableimportance—the teas are beautifully made there ;and as it is much nearer to Shanghae than Hwuy-chow, the land-carriage is considerably less inamount. Indeed, the whole of these Chekiang tea-districts have received great advantages from theopening of Shanghae to foreign trade; their teashave advanced in price, and large quantities ofthem are made up annually to suit the foreigntaste, and sent to that port for sale. Both my messengers returned in due time, andhad most fully accomplished the objects for whichthey were sent. But our collections did not con-sist of tea-seeds only. Large quantities of thechesnuts I have alluded to in Chapter III. wereprocured at this time in the vicinity of Tse-kee; CuAP. VIII. SUCCESS IN COLLECTING. 145 seeds of the hemp-palm, valuable on account of thefibre which it yields, and Cryptomeria japonica^. Rain Cloak. Hemp Palm. a fine timber-tree, were obtained in large quantitieson the hills near Tein-tung; and one of my mes-sengers succeeded in bringing me a good supplyof the seeds of the funereal cypress from Hwuy-chow. All these and many other useful and orna-mental trees and shrubs are now flourishing on theslopes of the Himalaya, in the north-west pr o-vinces of India. Shortly after my arrival in China the council ofthe Agricultural and Horticultural Society of Indiaapplied to the government of Bengal for anyassistance I could render them in the way ofsending the society seeds and plants of useful and 146 VARNISH-TREE. Chap. VIII. ornamental trees and shrubs which were likelyto be of value in India. The request of thesociety was immediately complied with, and I wasdirected to afford any assistauce which might be inmy power
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