Science papers : chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury; edited, with a memoir, by Joseph Ince.

  • Hanbury, Daniel, 1825-1875.
Date:
1876
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Credit: Science papers : chiefly pharmacological and botanical / by Daniel Hanbury; edited, with a memoir, by Joseph Ince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In tlie spring the cocoons containing the eggs of the insect lasa. are folded up by the cultivators in leaves (sometimes of the (Tin<Ter plant) and suspended at various distances on the branches Cultivation, of the tree which is to be stocked. After having been thus ex- posed for from one to four weeks, the eggs are hatched and the Wax-Tree and Inseot. Fac-simile of a drawing made from the Puu-tsaoii-kang-inuh The upper characters on the left are Chung-la (iusect-wax); beneath them, ha-clmng (wax-seed) ; in tlie right-liand corner at bottom, Tung-tsing-shoo (winter-green-tree). The larger characters on the right are Chung-pih- la (insect-white-wax). insects, which are white and of the size of millet seeds, emerge and attacla themselves to the branches of the tree or conceal themselves beneath its leaves. Some authors state that the insects have at this period a tendency to descend the tree, at the base of which, should there be any grass there, they would remain, and that, to obviate this difficulty, the Chinese keep the ground perfectly bare, so that they are induced to ascend, F