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of the mango varieties of India evidently can not be secured through 

 ' correspondence (S. P. I. No. 30485). 



The popularity of the Paraguayan fruit Feijoa sellowiana and 

 its unexpected hardiness in the South make a large-fruited seedling 

 of especial importance at this time (S. P. I. No. 39555). 



The rosy fleshed anona called llama (Annona diversifolia) , con- 

 sidered one of the best of this important class of fruits (S. P. I. No. 

 39567), and the Annona purpurea (S. P. I. No. 39358), a new, large, 

 aromatic-fruited species, add two important fruit plants to the sub- 

 tropical collection. 



The Chinese wampi (Claucena lansium) has shown that it will- 

 grown in Florida, and either its pale yellow rough-skinned fruits of 

 aromatic flavor or its ability as a stock to carry the grapefruit may 

 make it of value (S. P. I. No. 39568). 



The tropical ciruelas ,Spondias lutea (S. P. I. No. 39563), which 

 are popular in the markets of Bogota three months of the year, 

 should, if one can judge by the success of other species of the same 

 genus there, thrive well in Florida. 



A study seems not yet to have been made of the varieties of coconut 

 and their comparative value for the different purposes to which coco- 

 nuts are put, and the introduction by Mr. H. Pittier, from Punta 

 Burica, Panama, of a rare variety rich in oil (S. P. I. No. 39356) 

 emphasizes the need of a thorough study of this immensely valuable 

 food plant. 



The possible use of new stocks for the pear and an investigation of 

 the origin of the blight-proof Kieffer and LeConte pears will make 

 necessary close comparisons of the different Chinese species, and pear 

 breeders will want plants coming from the original trees of Pyrus 

 betulaefolia which were sent to Kew and the Arnold Arboretum by 

 Dr. Bretschneider in 1882 (S. P.I. Nos. 39547 and 39548) ; also plants 

 of Pyrus bretschneideri (S. P. I. No. 39538), which, at the arboretum, 

 in addition to being a remarkable ornamental, yields yellow globose, 

 juicy fruits of fair quality, from which it is thought by Prof. Sar- 

 gent the best of the Chinese cultivated pears have been derived ; and 

 Pyrus ovoidea (S. P. I. No. 39541), which is possibly the parent of 

 the Kieffer and has large, abundant flowers and foliage that colors 

 scarlet in autumn; and particularly Pyrus phaeocarpa (S. P. I. No. 

 39540), with pyriform fruits, which has never been attacked by pear 

 blight, although a large tree of it has been standing in the arboretum 

 for many years, exposed to infection. 



The woolly aphis is a serious pest of apple orchards in Chile, but 

 four immune varieties of apple have been found there and extensively 

 propagated by a large nursery firm at Santiago. They are deserv- 

 ing of trial in this country (S. P. I. Nos. 39320 to 39323). 



