WAX TREE OF CHINA.
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The following account of this singular
plant is extracted from GemeW C0reu =
As for the wax, il is the finest and whitest that
may be had, though Offices, and there,is such
plenty as serves the whole empire. Sever


Il provinces produces it, but that of Huquam
exceeds all the others as we'll in quantity as
whiteness. 1t is gathered in the pro,incc of
Nantung, upon little trees; but iii that of
Huqnam, upon large ones, as big as those
of the Indian pagotls, orchestnut-trees Of Eu-
rope, The way nature has found to produce
it, to us appears strange enough. There is
in this province creature or insect, of the
bigncss of flea, so sharp at singing, that it
not only picrces the skin of men and beasts,
but the bodies and boughs of trees.-Those
OF the province OF Aantung are much valued,
where the inhabitangs gather their eggs from
the trees, and carry them to sell in the pro-
vince of fIuquam. In the spring, there come
from these eggs, certain worms, which about
the beginning of the summer, they place at
the foot Of the tree, whence they creep up,
spreading themselves wonderfully over the
branches. Having placed themselves there,
they gnaw, pierce, and bore to the very pith,
their nourishment they convert into wax, and
as white as snow. which they drive out to the
mouth OF the hole they have made, where it
remains congealed in drops by the wind and
cold Here the owners Of the trees gather
| it, add make it into cakes as we do, which
are sold about ChiEa.--Du Halde SAYS, how
ever, that the worms fasten on the leaves oil
the tree, and in short time forms combs OF
wax, much smaller than the honey-comb.