"Another Ghoorma persimmon, Diospyros lotus, on which a 

 kaki variety has been grafted, growing at the very edge of 

 a loess plantation." In China the Oriental persimmon or 

 kaki (Diospyros kaki} is generally grafted upon another spe- 

 cies of persimmon called the Ghoorma (Diospyros lotus] . The 

 illustration shows one of these grafted trees growing on 

 the very edge of one of the pe-culiar perpendicular walls 

 of a ravine through the loess soil occurring commonly in 

 the Honan Province. This stock should be tested on the 

 loess soils of the United States. Photo No. A 32, by 

 F. N. Meyer, near Lingpau, Honan, China, Dec. 23, 1913. 



