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Jinan treats the country round the city of Jinan, in Shandong, south of the Yellow River, as a historical hemp growing area: the hemp "cultivated around Tsinan" whose seed was collected in 1913. Laiwu and Gangcheng, now districts of Jinan, belong with their hemp to Tai'an. A page on the city itself would be titled Jinan (city).
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Why Jinan is a growing area
- The United States Department of Agriculture's inventory of plant introductions for April to June 1913 (published 1915) prints F. N. Meyer's note on his lot 1833a, collected at Tsinan on 9 April 1913: "A variety of hemp, cultivated around Tsinan, said to produce especially strong fiber. Chinese name San ma." The note places the crop round the city and calls it a variety with a Chinese name.
How the border is drawn
- No source maps the fields. The line takes the city of Jinan south of the Yellow River, the ground "around Tsinan": the OpenStreetMap boundary of the city (relation 3486449), less Shanghe County and Jiyang District and the towns of Tianqiao District on the north bank, cut along the course of the river.
- Laiwu and Gangcheng, now districts of Jinan, are left out. Their hemp is described with Tai'an's, and the border of Tai'an covers them; the two lines meet along it.
- The area is about 5,500 km², the figure in the infobox. The infobox point (36.56, 117.06) is the centre of the border, not a field.
Herbarium sheets inside the line
Chiao 3165 (1930), collected near Cheeloo University in 1930, lies inside the line. Its duplicate sheets disagree on where the plant grew: the Beijing and Nanjing labels read Cultivated, the New York label Along cultivated fields and the Edinburgh label Along slope and around cultivated fields. With that conflict it is not listed as an accession of the area.
Growing status
The status is Historical. The one source dates from 1913 and says nothing of later growing; the infobox gives 1913 as both the first and the last year a source records hemp grown there.
Sources
- USDA inventory no. 35 (1915). The entry gives the collector's number 1833a, the date 9 April 1913 and the place as Tsinan. The department received Meyer's consignment on 14 June 1913 and numbered the lot plant introduction 35633.