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transplanted a few years later. Propagation from seeds and 

 grafting are also practiced. 



In many cases the trees are allowed to grow up in natural 

 shapes ; but where the best pears are produced the trees are 

 planted about twelve feet apart each way and the branches 

 trained horizontally upon a trellis about five or six feet high so 

 that a leafy arbor shading the entire ground surface is formed. 

 The fruit is carefully thinned, and the growing shoots pruned 

 closely throughout the summer. The fruit produced is remark- 

 ably large, uniform and beautiful in appearance. 



Lack of time forbids me to speak of the many other fruits 

 and flowers which deserve mention, but I cannot close before 

 attempting to give you an idea by means of an informal 

 description of the great Chrysanthemum exhibition which is 

 every year held at Dangozaka, one of the suburbs of Tokio. 



[The MSS. of Prof. Brooks closes here. It is to be regretted that there 

 was no full report of his "informal description" of the Chrysanthemum 

 Exhibition with which he concluded his interesting Essay. 



E. W. L.] 



