They have got no Arts or Manufactories here, but making of lacker'd Ware, a particular Account whereof I cannot as yet send you. They begin to Plant Mulberry-Trees, to breed up Worms for the Production of raw Silk; and they make some Tea, but chiefly for their own use. Altho' the following Particulars contain nothing of extraordinary matters in them, yet such as they are, you may take, till I can procure you better. The three sorts of Tea commonly carry'd to _England_ are all from the same Plant, only the Season of the Year, and the Soil, makes the difference. The _Bohee_ (or _Voiii_, so call'd of some Mountains in the Province of _Fo-kien_, where it is chiefly made) is the very first bud gather'd, in the beginning of _March_, and dry'd in the Shade. The _Bing_ Tea is the second growth in _April_: and _Singlo_ the last in _May_ and _June_, both dry'd a little in _Tatches_ or Pans over the Fire. The Tea Shrub being an ever-green, is in Flower from _October_ to _January_, and the Seed is ripe in _September_ and _October_ following, so that one may gather both Flowers and Seed at the same time; but for one fresh and full Seed, there are a hundred nought; these make up the two sorts of _Fruit_ in _Le Compte_'s description of Tea: As for his other sort, which he calls slymic Pease, they were nothing but the young Buds of the Flowers not yet open. Its Seed-Vessels are really _Tricapsular_, each _Capsula_ containing one Nut or Seed, and altho' two or one _Capsula_ only comes to Perfection, yet the Vestiges of the rest may be discerned. It grows in a dry gravelly Soil, on the sides of Hills in several places of this Island, without any Cultivation. _Le Compte_ is mistaken in saying (_pag. 96._) that the _Chineses_ are wholly Strangers to the Art of Grafting, for I have seen a great many of his Paradoxical Tallow-Trees ingrafted here, besides some other Trees. When they Ingraft, they do not slit the Stock as we do, but cut a small slice off the outside of the Stock, to which they apply the Graft (being cut sloping on one side, agreeable to the slice cut from the Stock) bringing up the Bark of the slice upon the outside of the Graft, they tie altogether, covering with Straw and Mud as we do. The Commentator on _Magalhen_ seems doubtful in the length of the _Chinese Che_ or Cubit. Here they have two sorts, one of 13⁷⁄₁₀ _English_ Inches, which the Merchants commonly use: The other is of eleven Inches, us'd by Carpenters, and also in Geographical Measures. Albeit _F. Martini_ is censur'd by _F. Magalhen_ for spelling a great many _Chinese_ Words with _ng_, which the _Portuguese_ and others have done with _m_, yet his way is more agreeable to the _English_ Pronunciation, only in some Words the _g_ may be left out, as in _Pekin_, _Nankin_, &c.