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The texture of the fruit is extremely delicate, suggesting that 
of a well-ripened plum. — : 
Repeated attempts, up to the present time, to introduce and 
establish the mangosteen into California and Florida have 
failed. An importation from Ceylon was received at the Mis- 
souri Botanical Garden in 1913, and specimens were planted 
in the economic and varied industries houses, but without 
success. The plants grown in the private greenhouse are still 
growing. Seeds of Garcinia xanthochymus were imported 
from Ceylon and the seedlings raised will be used for inarch- 
ing the mangosteen. This species is a much stronger plant, 
adapting itself to various types of soils, and is advocated as 
an excellent variety for the mangosteen stock. With the suc- 
cessful union of these species there is a possibility of fruiting 
the mangosteen in the tropical fruit house at the Garden. 
NOTES 
Mr. L. EH. Miles, of the University of Illinois, consulted the 
mycological herbarium of the Garden, November 28. 
Dr. George T. Moore, Director of the Garden, addressed 
the science section of the Missouri Teachers’ Association, at 
Central High School, November 7, on ‘‘The Missouri Botan- 
ical Garden as an Educational Institution.” 
Dr. D. T. MacDougal, Director of Botanical Research, 
Carnegie Institution of Washington, spent a day at the Gar- 
den recently in connection with the arrangements for the 
meetings of the American Association for the Advancement 
of Science and affiliated societies, in December. 
Mr. G. H. Pring, Floriculturist to the Garden, gave a 
stereopticon lecture on ‘‘The Cultivation of the Cultivated 
Chrysanthemum” before the St. Louis Association of Garden- 
ers, November 5. 
