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fruits that is known. The fruit attains a very large size. It is the variety 

 mostly dried and prepared like figs for market. 



Prof. W. E. Griffis, the author of "The Mikado's Empire," writes, "As 

 regards the value of the Japanese Persimmon, there can be but one opinion, 

 the tree itself is one of the handsomest of fruit trees, and in the fall, with 

 its golden-hued fruit hanging to the branches after the leaves have fallen, 

 forms a beautiful and striking picture in a landscape. 



"As to the fruit itself, it is nutritious, palatable, and to a high degree 

 charged with those chemical ingredients which give most fruits their value 

 in preserving the health and purifying the blood. This fact is insisted upon 

 by the Japanese doctors, some of whom I have known to cure their pa- 

 tients by a 'persimmon cure' like that of the 'grape cure' of Southern 

 Europe. 



"The large amount of 'grape' sugar in this fruit has set some persons 

 experimenting on them to determine whether sugar could be extracted in 

 paying quantities. I do not know whether satisfactory results have yet 

 been obtained. The fact of their containing so much saccharine matter is 

 the reason of the ease with which they may be dried or cured, in which 

 form they are sold as sweetmeats in Japanese shops." 



VARIETIES. 



DAIMIO Slightly oblong : reddish color with dark point : medium size ; 

 flesh soft ; ripens in October. Called " Yedo's best Persimmon." 



MIKADO Flat, or like a tomato in shape ; medium size ; bright j^ellow 

 color ; flesh solid. This is a very common and popular fruit in the vicinity 

 of Yedo. It is not much used for drying. Some of the specimens have 

 no seeds, and especially when the trees are young. 



NIIION Slightly oblong; yellowish red ; black spots on the surface and 

 in the flesh ; flesh solid ; very early. 



TAIKON Round, pale or greenish yellow color ; fair size ; ripens in Oc- 

 tober. A great favorite in Western Japan, where it grows to a large size. 



PRICE. v 



Two vears' old trees... ...75 cents each. 



