THE PLANT WORLD. 95 



Mr. Jas. H. Ferriss, the conchologist wi-ote me last .summer dur- 

 ing his annual trip through the East Tennessee mountains that the 

 mountain people called the Turk's-cap-lily "Yellow .Jessamine," and 

 sensitive brier was called "sensitive rose." 



I do not remember seeinof a mention of any use Ijein^ made of 

 persimmons save that in Maryland the darkies make "simmon beer." 

 In many sections in Southern Kentucky the farmers' wives make pre- 

 serves of them and also dry them in the sun for winter use. I have 

 noticed some six or more varieties of this very toothsome fruit in 

 Southern Kentucky; one of medium size that ri[)ens early in Septem- 

 ber before frost; one small, turning ])urple when fully ripe, and still 

 another, of especially tine (juality, is quite large, two inches long, and 

 ripens late in December or the tirst of January. — Sadie F. Price, 

 BoirVnuj (rrt^en., hij. 



The readers of The PLA^'T World will be interested in learning 

 that the New York State College of Forestry of Cornell Universit}' 

 has made provision in its curriculum for a course of instruction in 

 "Fish and Game Protection and Fish Culture." The course consists 

 of lectures, laboratory work and field observations regarding the life- 

 histories of the important food and game fishes; the biology of streams 

 and lakes: the relation of the forest and of forestry, loooino-, lund)er- 

 ing, milling, mining and irrigation operations to the streams and lakes 

 and their inhabitants; the artificial propagation and protection of 

 fishes, and the protection of the useful mammals and the game birds and 

 song birds of the forest. This department is in charge of Dr. Barton 

 W. Evermann, Ichthyoloirist of the V. S. Fish Commission, and the 

 course was first given during ths second and third weeks in May in 

 the College Forest at Axton in the Adirondacks. The value of in- 

 struction alonof these lines can be scarcely overestimated. The vounir 

 men who go out from the College of Forestry are the men who will be 

 c:illed to the manao-ement of the laro;e forests of the United States, 

 both national and private, and they should know not only how to care 

 for the trees of the forest but also the birds and mannuals and the 

 streams and lakes and their inhabitants. Dr. Fernow, Director of the 

 College of Forestry,' and Dr. Kvermann are ])oth to be congratulated 

 upon the successful inauguration of this interesting and important 

 work. 



