900 



large variety of jujube, of round-flattened shape and of 

 brown-red color. Meat sweet but of loose texture; much 

 used baked in bread and boiled with millet. Chinese name 

 Ta hong tsao , meaning 'large red jujube. "' (Frank N. Meyer's 

 introductions and descriptions.) 



Ziziphus mistol Griseb. (Rhamnaceae. ) 40853. Seeds of the 

 mistol from Guemes, Argentina. Presented by Mr. H. P. 

 Schultz, Director, Agricultural Experiment Station. "A 

 small tree with spiny tortuous branches, subrotund, coria- 

 ceous, minutely serrulate leaves, inconspicuous flowers, 

 and small edible drupes with large stones. Introduced as 

 a possible stock for the Chinese jujube, and for com- 

 parison with the Brazilian Jua (Ziziphus Joazeiro) . Found 

 throughout northern Argentina as far south as the Province 

 of Cordoba. "(Schultz.) 



NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 



Yokohama, Japan, Miss Eliza R. Scidmore writes August 

 10, 1915. "The nursery man went up in the air when I sug- 

 gested getting slips from the plum tree by the Forty-seven 

 Ronin's grave. Impossible!! That tree too sacred to let 

 anyone have a hack at it. 



"The Giou cherry tree in Kioto quite possible he 

 thinks. 



"Many cherry trees at the Arakawa bank are dead and 

 dying. Floods or popularity, the jarring of millions of 

 feet have paralyzed the roots. 



"The dog days began a week after I landed, and the 

 rice crop ought to be a tremenduous one. 



"The most beautiful, sight in Japan is now Mr. Hara's 

 garden at San-no-taui, beyond the Honmokee bathing beach. 

 A narrow valley with a carriage road crossing and then 

 following lotus, lotus, lotus! Pink and white, very tall, 

 in full flower, beautifully kept. Like the iris gardens, 

 only the iris has not those beautiful big leaves flopping 

 up and down. I never imagined anything so lovely. 



"I ran down the morning glory industry for you last 

 week--spent a mosquito night at the hotel in Nyeno park, 

 and at 5 a.m. motored out beyond Kameido, where the Iriya 

 gardeners were driven by the floods six years ago. They 

 still grow themacres of pots--but send them into the 

 city for sale. There are no show gardens and places to 

 sit and look at benches, etc., full of rare ones. All 

 that is over. Too far out now for people to go at sunrise 

 and wander from garden to garden as at Iriya. 



