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Papers of Ernest Henry Wilson, 1896-1952. Book IIA: Plant notes, June 25-August 4, 1903.
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"Chinese cultivated plants" Glycine hispida [illegible] hardy always planted around the sides of rice-fields. The seed is sewn after the fields are prepared for paddy when bundles are made up. H. is planted in this situation hardy to [survive?] [farmed rice.] It thrives there as well as elsewhere. The [H] are variously colored. The [illegible line] article of food; they are fried in oil, roasted boiled & cooked in various ways. Chenopodium album "Hui [ Tiun Hara"?] all parts of thsi plant is [illegible] as they [illegible] [illegible] [illegible] [illegible]. They are
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first-boiled, afterwards fried in oil & eaten with pork, chicken etc. It [illegible] more as a weed of cultivation than anything else.
Malva parviflora: [illegible] [illegible] The young shoots & leaves of this plant are eaten they are first-boiled afterwards squeezed dry, fried in oil & eaten with sauce. They are eaten both hot - & cold as the latter they serve as salad.
Acroglochin chenopodioides [illegible line] The young shoots of this plant - are boiled and eaten with rice
Papers of Ernest Henry Wilson, 1896-1952. Book III, Part 1: Field Diary, August 10-September 23, 1903. Kiating Fu to Sung Pan Ting via Cheng Fu and return.
Papers of Ernest Henry Wilson, 1896-1952. Book IV: Field Diary, October 13-23, 1903; November 6-20, 1903. Kiating to Mount Omei and return.
Papers of Ernest Henry Wilson, 1896-1952. Unnumbered Book: Field Diary, March 15-April 24, 1904. Ichang to Sui Fu.
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March 15th - March 23rd I have now reached [?] on my upward journey. The boat left on the evening of the 11th instant and I left the following day. Owing to a miscalculation I had to spend the first night in my second boat. We caught up our boat next morning at Wang Ling Miao. The river is very good for travelling now and none of the rapids severe thus far. The Chin Tan and Yeh Tan gave us no trouble and there was not a junk tied up at the foot of either. A very remarkable and good sign. Our worst rapids so far were the Hsiao ma Tan and
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the Cho Tan some little distance above Wushan. Both of these were running very strong. The current in the gorges is very slack and we made good progress against it. This has been my [?] passage. The country is just putting on its spring warmth and looking quite green. The crops of Peas and Beans are in full flower and the wheat is coming into ear. But the fruit trees are the chief attraction. Peaches Pears and Plums being a mass of flower. Really we do not value fruit trees
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and fully exposed places is what it revels in. The Primulas in the Ichang Gorges are now over and there is very little in flower. In the Wushan Gorge I went for a walk along the magnificent road which has been excavated out of solid rock. It is a wonderful piece of work. It is seldom less than four feet wide and in splendid repair. Sometimes it is not more than 100 feet above the river, at others fully a thousand. Generally the cliff is [?] [?] there is no balustrade