Lee and Scott: Valencia Oranges 
refrigeration; the fruits are shown in 
accompanying photographs. The de- 
scription of these fruits follows: 
The Soh Kaa from Kua Tscha: The 
trees of the strain from Kua Tscha 
have an upright, spreading habit of 
growth. The foliage and other tree 
characteristics are similar to those of 
trees of the Smooth strain. The fruits 
are smaller than the fruits of the 
Smooth strain, but have somewhat 
the same shape; texture of skin 
smooth; color reddish orange; rind 
very thin; rag tender; juice abundant, 
sweet; seeds averaging a few to each 
fruit. The fruits agree in description 
very closely with fruits of the Smooth 
strain. 
The Sunwui fruits: The habit of 
growth and foliage characteristics of 
the trees are similar to those of the 
Valencia and Long strains. The fruits 
are cylindrical and long; size, small to 
medium; texture somewhat rougher 
than Smooth strain; color’ bright 
orange; rag tender; juice abundant, 
sweet, of good quality; seeds averag- 
ing 1 to 2 per fruit. The fruits agree 
very closely in description with fruits 
of the Long strain. 
Chinese growers are not active along 
the lines of plant introduction and the 
adoption of methods and ideas from 
the Occident is slow. It is hardly 
probable therefore that we are dealing in 
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China with introductions from America. 
Sunwui, the point at which one of 
these strains was discovered, is situated 
in the delta of the Canton River, and 
but four or five miles from the city of 
Kong Moon. Various histories of 
China record the activities of Spanish 
and Portuguese merchants at the port 
of Kong Moon in the early days of 
foreign trade with China. The interest 
of such traders in economic plant 
materials is shown by the many defi- 
nitely recorded plant introductions 
made to and from the Philippines. The 
Spanish, moreover, apparently were 
especially interested in orange culture, 
for wherever they colonized orange 
culture followed them. Thus a map 
showing where orange trees have be- 
come established would coincide very 
closely with a map showing the Spanish 
expansion in the 16th, 17th and 18th 
centuries. 
The finding of these strains of an 
orange in South China, similar to 
certain strains of the Valencia in the 
United States, is suggestive of the 
origin of the Valencia in China and that 
it was carried from there to Spain, Por- 
tugal,the Azores or other Mediterranean 
countries by the Spanish or Portu- 
guese traders. In one of these coun- 
tries it was found and subsequently 
went to Florida and California through 
the agency of the Rivers Nurseries. 
SCIENCE 
Tue ALMmosts: a study of the feeble- 
minded, by Helen MacMurchy. 
Pp. 178, price $1.50. Boston, 
Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920. 
Miss MacMurchy strikes her key- 
note in her first sentence: ‘‘Sometimes 
the poet sees more than the scientist, 
even when the scientific man is playing 
at his own game.” If fiction had been 
more carefully studied, she avers that 
“we might have come sooner to some 
of the alleged discoveries of the twen- 
tieth century.’’ One of these alleged 
discoveries is apparently the fact of 
feeblemindedness; and to atone for the 
neglect of past fiction readers, Miss 
MacMurchy has diligently studied 
Shakespeare, Bunyan, Scott, Dickens, 
AT SECOND HAND 
Bulwer Lytton, Charles Reade, and a 
dozen others down to Kate Douglas 
Wiggin and the Contributors Club of 
the Atlantic Monthly. 
“Touchstone is probably mentally 
defective, but it is quite possible that 
the fool in ‘Lear’ may have been in- 
sane, though certain of his words and 
actions remind one forcibly of a men- 
tally defective person.’’ And so on. 
Those who like to study human nature 
thus far removed from reality will like 
the book. The last chapter is a senti- 
mental statement of ‘‘The Case for the 
Feebleminded”’ which, while contain- 
ing nothing new, is on the whole sound. 
The writer urges custodial care and 
every endeavor to make the feeble- 
minded ‘“‘happy, safe, and useful.” P. P. 
