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usually prolific. The fruit weighs about a pound, is ob- 

 long to obovate in form, light green, with flesh of excel- 

 lent flavor and quality. Attention is now being centred on 

 the Guatemalan type at the Miami Garden. A variety Intro- 

 duced from Guatemala two years ago by 0. F. Cook of the 

 Bureau (S.P.I. No. 38549) is being propagated, and should 

 come into bearing within another year or two. The variety 

 Nutmeg, (S.P.I. No. 36604) from Honolulu, came into bear- 

 ing last year, but has not yet had sufficient trial to per- 

 mit an accurate estimate of its value. 



NOTES FROM CORROSPONDENTS ABROAD. 



Mr. J. H. Cameron writes from Londiani Farms Limited, Lon- 

 dlani, British East Africa, May 1, 1916. 



"I wonder if you would be interested to read a few 

 lines descriptive of this extraordinary country in regard 

 to its flora of its fauna you will of course have read -in 

 Mr. Roosevelt's book 'African Game Trails'. I am living 

 in a part where Mr. Roosevelt did quite a lot of his shoot- 

 ing and do quite a lot of it myself; thousands of head of 

 great antelope and other game roam on this estate. I am 

 the manager of a farm of thirty thousand acres situated 

 exactly on the equator; but at an elevation of from eight 

 thousand to ten thousand feet above the level of the sea. 

 On account of this great elevation the climate is most 

 salubrious; I have never known the temperature to rise 

 above 86 F. or drop below 45. We have a large rain-fall 

 too, so that we can and do grow almost anything. 



"On this estate flax is the main industry; we both 

 grow and manufacture the fibre and it commands a price on 

 the London market that compares well with the best Belgian 

 and French flax. On account of the unfortunate destruction 

 of the first named country we are of course experiencing a 

 boom in price. We also raise a' large number of cattle, 

 using the native cow as a basis and crossing it with an 

 imported English Shorthorn bull. We shall then breed up 

 from that cross to something better. 



"At our nine thousand foot level we work the forests, 

 cutting the timber, most of which is sold in the colony but 

 some we send to England, .more especially the cedar, Juniperus 

 procera, a splendid tree growing 150 to 200 feet high. We 

 ship it in baulks 12" by 12" up. I do not know what they 

 resaw it into in England, but here we build our houses with 

 it, inside and out ; we also saw it up in a special mill for 

 pencil cedar. Olea hochstetteri (native name m ' shraghue) , a fine 

 olive: this wood we saw into ties for the Uganda Railway, 

 and for the new railways that our military authorities are 



