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Frank N. Meyer South China Exploration Images
Images drawn from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript. Please
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Pyrus calleryana, natural size. A somewhat
small-flowering type of a wild Calleryana pear, with rather
tomentose foliage, which isn't full grown yet. Three fruits
of last year's crop has persisted on the tree during the whole
winter and spring. Note the very small size, on which account
the Chinese call it the "T'ang li" or crab-apple
pear, as these small fruits, with deciduous calyx, resemble
the tiny apples of Malus spectabilis and M.
baccata to a surprising degree. (Meyer.)
Neg. No. 13262. King men, Hupeh, China, April 7, 1917.
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Pyrus calleryana. A fairly large specimen of
a Calleryana pear, found growing brotherly together with a
pine tree, Pinus massoniana. Very few trees
find pine trees congenial mates, but this remarkable Calleryana
pear occurs at times quite plentiful in open pine forests,
on sterile mountain slopes. (Meyer.)
Neg. No. 13264, near Nan chang yen, Hupeh, China, March
31, 1917
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Pyrus calleryana. Dwarf wild Calleryana pears,
only a few feet high, growing in sterile, decomposed porphyrious
rock on a badly eroded mountain top, elevation c.a. 2,000
ft. a.s. This photo certainly illustrates the marvellous drought-resisting
capacities of this wonderful Chinese pear.
Neg. No. 13267, near Nan chang yen, Hupeh, China, March
31, 1917
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Phyllostachys sp. Drying bamboo paper of the dry sandy
and pebbly part of a mountain stream. These oblong squares
of paper measure 6 x 8 inches and sell locally at the ridiculously
low price of fifty for one cent (Mex.). They are rolled up
and used instead of matches to light the tobacco in the water
pipes of the Chinese. (Meyer.)
Neg. No. 13296, Hui ma po, Hupeh, China, April 2, 1917
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Paeonia suffruticosa. A very large specimen of tree
peony, having 75 flowers of a beautiful blush-rosy color.
The plant is between fifty and sixty years of age and tho
an old stalk dies off at times, new ones come up again every
year. The Chinese hold these old "Mootan", as they
call them, in very high esteem. (Meyer.)
Neg. No. 13300, Yu chuan temple, near Tang yang, Hupeh,
China, April 12, 1917
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Soya Max. The five pots are filled with broken
soy bean cake from which a cheap sauce is made; the pots wholly
contain vinegar which is made here from wheat and millet bran.
Great heat and great cold are both detrimental to the good
quality of both sauce and vinegar, there for the best products
are obtained in both spring and fall. (Meyer.)
Neg. No. 13284, Ichang, near Tang yang, Hupeh, China, May
5, 1917
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