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attention to various colour vjirietie<! or liybrids iu which the 

 yelloAV of the flowers is replaced by red, but haviuff the charac- 

 teristic veining. 



Piutnts MHuiiiioiviczii was oripiually found iu Kasiuni 

 Manchuria by Euprocht in 1857; since then It has been met wiili 

 111 Corea, Sadialin and Japan. Its first a])pearaii(c in iliis (M.uiitry 

 dates from 1895, when Prof. Sargent sent it lo Kow from the 

 Arnold Arboretum. _ The sp-cies is included in the Mahnhh 

 section of the cherries, and is remarkable among the species in 

 cultivation in the conspicuous foliaceous bracts borne by the 

 inflorescence. Its flowers are at first white, changing to pinkish 

 as they fade, and are rather small, while the globose fluits pass 

 from red to black and are a quarter of an indi across. 



Volume 141 of the work, which is completed with this I&sue, 

 is dedicated to S. T. Heard, Esq., "in who.-,e garden at Eoss- 

 doliuu, near Ivenmare, so many plants whose portraits euibellish 

 tlie Botanical Magazine And a congenial home.'' 



Agriculture in Colombia. — Mr. M. T. Dawe, who was recently 

 appoiuted Agricultural Adviser to the Colombian Government. 



has recorded some impressions of the present (onditidn and possi- 

 bilities of agriculture in Colombia received during a journey 

 from Santa Marta to Bogota.* 



In Santa Marta there are two agricultural zones, a lower and 

 an upper, characterised respectively by the cultivation of the 

 banana and coffee. The export of bananas for the year UJJ5 had 

 been estimated at 8,000,000 bunches, but it is now calculated 

 that 2,500,000 bunches less will be exported owng to the cxten- 

 .sive damage caused by a tornado. Although there is already a 

 bi-weekly service of steamers engaged iu carrying bananas to 

 the United States and Europe, there seems to be loom f(tr con- 

 siderable expansion of the trade. Tlie rainfall in the lower zone 

 is so irregular and uncertain that, apart from sucIj xeru}djyfes as 

 Agave, cultivation on a commercial scale is pi-actically inij)ossIble 

 without irrig-ation. This zone would be very suitable for the 

 cultivaticm of Aijarc, in which, owing to its favour;ib]c geo- 

 g-raphical situation and facilities for transport, Santa Marta 

 might become a formidable comi)etitor of Ti(.|iic;il East Africa. 

 Although the phvsical conditions are suitable for the cultivation 

 of cotto^ii, it is improbalde that this could be ])r()fitably grown on 

 a commereial scale, owing to the high rate of wages. 



Paiii and Guinea grass are used for pastures in the Santa 

 Marta ref-ion. Mi". Bawe recommends tlic intKuluctuin cf other 

 i)astuie and fodder-plants, and especially <»f the Vilvct bean. 



In the up])er agricultural zone of Siinta Marta cotTce is tlie 

 onlv idant cultivated on a large scale, the largest jdaiitation being 

 the" "Cincinnati," which has about :{50,0nn trees. Coffee seems 



to do best at an altitude of about 4500 ft. in the Sui ra ^levada. 

 The trees are sown at intervals of about 8 ft., an<l are neither 

 toi)ped nor pruned. The shade-tree employed is the guamo 

 {Inga fJulcIs). The average annual yield of dry coffee j.er tree 



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