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and each year bears fertile fruit. These he kindly sent, in 
February, 1911, and they were duly ‘worked ’’ on the tree at 
Kew. Some of them united satisfactorily, but nothing further 
was noticed until last November, when, on the leaves falling 
away from the branches, four fruits were seen to be hanging on 
one of the Montpellier grafts. 
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In regard to the sex of the Ginkgo there is a general impression 
that the female tree differs from the male in being less pyramidal, 
and in having spreading or even pendulous branches. ve 
E. H. Wilson, who has hada very large acquaintance with the 
Ginkgo, both in China and Japan, controverts this view in a recent 
number (Noyember, 1919) of the Garden Magazine. He says 
there that he has never found it possible to determine the sex of a 
tree by its mode of growth and that both the Chinese and Japanese 
say it is impossible to do so. 
\ fine example of a female tree with spreading branches may 
be seen in the Botanic Garden, Padua (the ground, below the 
tree was crowded with seedlings in 1918). Other fine female trees 
may be seen at Ouchy by the Lake-of Geneva:; 96 | vs. 
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