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嘉慶二十四年（1819）《新安縣志》卷之三 輿地二「物產」門「木」類開頭（人手核讀：第 72 頁下半塊嘅「木」字單行標目起，跨第 73 頁上半塊；版心「新安縣志 卷之三 物產」、頁次「八」「九」）。一、榕樹：「榕樹有大葉榕、細葉榕之分。其細葉榕葉大如麻實，如冬青，樹幹拳曲，不可以為器，燒之無焰，不可以為薪，以其不材故能久而無傷。其蔭十畝，藤梢入地即生根，或一大株有根四五處，而橫及鄰樹即成連理枝。鳥銜其子墜於他樹即寄生，久而根株蟠固，他樹枯朽，竟成榕樹矣。」——分清大葉榕、細葉榕兩種；細葉榕「不材」故長壽；氣根入地即生根，一株可生四五處根；橫枝接上鄰樹即成長理枝；雀鳥銜子落喺別樹上就寄生，日子久了根幹蟠固，原本嗰棵枯朽，最後竟成一棵榕樹。條中再引《嶺南雜記》云：「紅梅驛以北，樹無有如榕大者，蔭十餘畝，離奇古怪，備木之異」；又記榕樹「年久者常結伽南香，焚之致鶴；植於水際，其子可以肥魚；細枝曝乾，束為炬，風雨不減；其髥製藥可以固齒，其脂可以貼金接物，頗與漆似」；條末「人但知有用之用而不知無用之用也」係用《莊子》語收束。二、木棉：「木棉樹大可合抱，高十數丈，葉如香樟，花瓣極厚，正二月開，色大紅而蕊黃，開時無葉，子色黑，大如酒杯，老則拆裂，有絮茸茸，土人取以為裀褥。」——花期喺正二月、先花後葉、果熟裂開出絮，絮攞嚟做墊褥；即今日所講嘅木棉（Kapok），同「棉花」唔係同一樣嘢，縣志亦冇當佢係紡織原料。「葉如香樟」四字以 1,600 px 窄欄圖覆核（木旁加章），即今日嘅香樟（樟樹），唔係誤讀成「香檳」。呢條係由公共領域掃描本人手核讀出嚟嘅內容事實，同志錄並排對照：《香港志》志錄 1819 年只有一條（EV-18190000-24）總述縣志喺「花、草、木、竹、藤、藥、羽毛鱗介、貨」等門「記錄了多樣植物及物產，扼要介紹」，冇逐個樹名、亦冇「不材故能久」呢類評語，所以志錄唔可以當第二來源用；本條冇借志錄補任何未核到嘅字。如實列出未核／待定部分：①「其髥」一字（髟部，右旁形近冄）按字形錄，指榕樹下垂嘅氣根，唔改寫成「鬚」；②「伽南香」「焚之致鶴」照錄，唔判斷「致鶴」係實事抑或傳說；③「裀褥」二字以 1,100 px 讀定（衣部＋因／辱），未再放大；④ 第 73 頁下半塊（頁次「十」）同第 74 頁以下未讀，本條唔涉及；⑤ 全條只有名、形、用途，冇年份亦冇人物，唔作年代推算。
English
The opening of the tree section in juan 3 (“Radiations of the Earth”, part 2), section “Products”, of the Jiaqing 24 (1819) Xin’an County Gazetteer, read by hand from the single-character heading “tree” in the lower block of page 72 across into the upper block of page 73 (centre columns: “Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, Products”, folios eight and nine). One, the banyan: “The banyan is divided into the large-leaved and the small-leaved. The small-leaved banyan has leaves as big as hemp seed, like those of the holly; its trunk is crooked and knotted, it cannot be made into vessels, and it burns without flame, so it cannot be used for firewood; being useless it therefore endures and comes to no harm. Its shade covers ten mu; the tips of its trailing stems enter the ground and root at once, or a single great tree has roots in four or five places, and where they reach the neighbouring tree the two grow into a joined-limb branch. When a bird carries its seed and drops it on another tree, it grows there as a parasite, and in time the roots and trunk coil firm, the host tree withers, and in the end it becomes a banyan.” The entry then quotes the Lingnan Miscellany: “North of Hongmei post station no tree is as great as the banyan: its shade covers a dozen mu, it is strange and uncanny, a prodigy among trees”; and adds that an old banyan “often forms agarwood, which burned brings cranes; planted at the water’s edge its seeds fatten fish; its twigs dried in bundles make torches that wind and rain do not quench; its beard makes a medicine that firms the teeth, and its resin can gild and join things, much like lacquer”. The entry closes with the Zhuangzi tag: “People know only the usefulness of the useful and do not know the usefulness of the useless.” Two, the kapok: “The kapok tree is large enough to be spanned by both arms, a dozen or more zhang tall; its leaves are like the camphor tree (xiangzhang); its petals are very thick; it flowers in the first and second months, crimson with a yellow centre, and flowers when it has no leaves; its seeds are black, big as a wine cup, and split open when old into a downy floss, which the people of the place take for mattress padding.” — that is the kapok of today, with its early flowering, bare flowering branches and floss used for padding; it is not cotton, and the gazetteer never treats it as a textile fibre. The four characters “leaves like the camphor” were re-checked on a 1,600 px narrow detail (wood radical over zhang). This entry records content read by hand from the public-domain scan, set side by side with the gazetteer register: the Hong Kong Chronicles register has a single 1819 entry (EV-18190000-24), which describes the gazetteer only in general terms as “recording a variety of plants and products” with brief notices; it gives no tree names and none of these comments, so it cannot be used as a second source. Gaps stated honestly: (1) The single character read as 髥 (hair radical, right side close to 冄) is transcribed as printed and taken to mean the hanging aerial roots; it has not been rewritten as 鬚. (2) “Agarwood” and “burned brings cranes” are transcribed without deciding whether the crane detail is fact or lore. (3) The two characters of “mattress padding” (裀褥) were read at 1,100 px and not re-checked. (4) The lower block of page 73 (folio ten) and pages 74 onwards have not been read; this entry does not touch them. (5) Every item gives only a name, form and use, with no date or person, so no chronology is inferred.
出處：掃描本：《廣州大典》第三十五輯·史部方志類·第六十三冊，嘉慶《新安縣志》卷之三 輿地二「物產」門——「木」門由第 72 頁下半塊嘅單字標目「木」起（標目夾喺「油葱」條末同「榕樹」條之間），榕樹條跨版心續到第 73 頁上半塊，木棉條亦喺同一塊。版心逐字實測：「新安縣志 卷之三 物產」，頁次「八」（第 72 頁下半塊）同「九」（第 73 頁上半塊）。Commons sha1 ad357f97…。掃描本冇可用文字層，內容一律人手核讀：1,100 px 分段圖（V72LL-72.png 第 72 頁左半、V73UR-73.png 第 73 頁右半、V73UL-73.png 第 73 頁左半），疑字另以 460–1,200 px 窄欄圖覆核（W72LLl-72.png、W73URl-73.png、X73a-73.png、X73b-73.png）。見 scripts/ocr-pd-gazetteer-scans.swift。Provenance: Scan: Guangzhou Dadian, series 35 (local gazetteers), volume 63 — the Jiaqing Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, “Radiations of the Earth” part 2, section “Products”: the tree section, from the single-character heading “tree” in the lower block of page 72 (between the end of the houseleek entry and the banyan) down through the kapok. The banyan entry runs across the centre fold into the upper block of page 73. Centre columns read directly as “Xin’an County Gazetteer, juan 3, Products”, folio eight (page 72, lower block) and folio nine (page 73, upper block). Commons sha1 ad357f97…. The scan has no usable text layer, so the content was read by hand from 1,100 px segment images (V72LL-72.png for the left half of page 72, V73UR-73.png and V73UL-73.png for the two halves of page 73), with doubtful characters re-checked on 460–1,200 px narrow details (W72LLl-72.png, W73URl-73.png, X73a-73.png, X73b-73.png). See scripts/ocr-pd-gazetteer-scans.swift.