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Africa in a day or two to attend, the cotton growers' congress 

 at Orleansville on the 20th. An important new office has just 

 been created in the Colonial Office. M. Chevalier has been 

 made a sort of traveling inspector of the Colonial gardens 

 and experiment stations. He is full of energy and will "be a 

 valuable man to work with." 



INDiA. Calcutta. Mr. William H. Michael, American 

 consul, writes November 13, that he has "been looking into the 

 matter of canning mangos as practiced in India. He finds that 

 the work is being done by a young Indian who was trained in 

 the United States, and with machinery obtained from the 

 United States. This young man, whose factory last year turned 

 out 20000 cans of mangos and pineapples, and who this year 

 expects to put up 18000 cans of mangos and 12000 cans of 

 litchis, says that there is practically no difference in 

 canning mangos from the methods used in canning the large 

 freestone peaches of California. The fruit so far put up has 

 withstood shipment to England and in the cans examined the 

 fruit retained its flavor as well as could be expected. 



MEXICO. Zacuapam. Huatusco. Dr. C. A. Purpus writes 

 October 31, that he has been collecting seeds and cones of 

 Pinus rudis, P. pseudostrobus , and another which may prove to 

 be P. teccote. On account of the insecurity of the country 

 he was unable to ascend the peak of Mt. Orizaba in order to 

 obtain seeds of P. hartwegii. 



RUSSIA. Samara. Mr. Frank N. Meyer writes November 8, 

 that he has returned to European Russia and will probably get 

 into the alfalfa regions of the northern Caucasus, since the 

 troubles in China have probably effectively prevented any 

 work in the northwestern provinces of that country this 

 winter. 



SPECIAL NOTE. 



Through the kindness of the Forest Service we are 

 enabled to offer a small quantity of the seeds of the bigtree 

 (Sequoia washingtoniana) to experimenters interested in culti- 

 vating this tree. 



Issued December 20, 1911. 



