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 NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 



Jamaica. Port Antonio. Mr. M. Cork writes June 6: 

 "There are several ways of using the Papaya in cooking 

 meat; the fruit is used green, peeled, cut in slices and 

 laid on the meat, left there for 10 or 15 minutes. Then 

 the meat is cooked; or the leaf and stalk can be bruised 

 and the juice put on the meat which is cooked at once. 

 The best way is to experiment, for the papaya there may 

 not be as strong as the one here. There is an old saying 

 here that if an animal were to be tied under a papaya tree 

 and left there for an hour it would die. My cook uses 

 the stalk of the papaya leaf when cooking steak, peels the 

 stalk and cuts it in slices, then puts it on the steak and 

 beats it gently so that the juice comes on it. She then 

 pours a little vinegar over it all and leaves it to soak 

 into the steak for five or 10 minutes. She then puts it 

 on the fire and covers it up, and when it begins to steam 

 takes the papaya away. That with the vinegar gives a nice 

 flavor to the meat. Of course if the meat is very tough it 

 may require longer than 10 or 15 minutes to make it ten- 

 der. Another way is to bruise the leaf and wrap the meat 

 in it, but five minutes ought to be long enough done in 

 that way. Always use a little vinegar; It helps both to 

 make the meat tender and gives a nice flavor." 



China. Shanghai. Mr Prank N. Meyer writes June 17: 

 "In speaking about diseases, this reminds me that here in 

 Shanghai the white-wax insect has become a serious pest in 

 privet-hedges (Ligustrum liccidum) and is very hard to dis- 

 lodge. Mr. D. MacGregor, Superintendent of parks here, 

 showed me the other day several dead bushes in a large 

 privet hedge, disfiguring the whole ensemble and caused by 

 this white-wax insect and by some large globular scales, 

 of which I have collected some. 



"On June 12th, I bought 250 pounds of fresh lytchee 

 fruits and had them cleaned and washed; they cost 8tf Mex. 

 silver per pound, but I got only about 20 Ibs. of good 

 seeds out of them. Now the problem is however that these 

 lytchee seeds started to germinate already on Tuesday 

 morning and I had to remove them to the cool room of the 

 hotel. I am intending to put them in the cool room of the 

 S. S. Manchuria, which leaves on June 25th for San Fran- 



1 Cisco. 

 "I am not sure at all whether I can obtain any inarch- 

 ed lytchee plants. The nearest place they have them is 

 .Foochow and then again near Canton. Both these places 

 <have dialects all of their own and one needs special in- 



