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Diospyros commonly encountered in that country is reall 
indigenous in the empire, where they were both probably intro- 
duced, with many other cultivated plants, from China. e e 
common and important of the two species is, of course, the Kaki, 
Diospyros Kaki, which is planted everywhere in the neighbour- 
hood of houses, which in the interior of the main island are often 
embowered in small groves of this handsome tree. In shape it 
“ Diospyros Kaki, or an allied species, is hardy in Peking, with a 
climate similar to that of New England, and fully as trying to 
plant life ; it fruits in southern Yezo, and decorates every garden 
in the elevated provinces of Central Japan, where the winter 
climate is intensely cold. 
“There appears, therefore, to be no reason why it should not 
flourish in New England if plants of a northern race can 
obtained ; and, so far as climate is concerned, the tree, which, in 
the central mountain districts of Hondo, covers itself with fruit 
year after year, will certainly succeed in all our Alleghany region 
from Pennsylvania southward. In this country we have considered 
the Kaki a tender plant unable to survive outside the region where 
the Orange flourishes. 
“This is true of the southern varieties which have been brought 
to this country, and which may have originated in south-eastern 
Asia, in a milder climate than that of southern Japan, for the Ka 
is a plant of wide distribution, either natural or through cultivation. 
But the northern Kaki, the tree of Peking and the gardens o 
central Japan, has probably not yet been tried in this country. I 
it succeeds in the northern and middle states, it will give us a 
handsome new fruit of good flavour, easily and cheaply raised, of 
first-rate shipping quality when fresh, and valuable when dried, and 
an caasiohiat tree of extraordinary interest and beauty. 
