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how is it that two peoples so wide apart have adopted the same 

 practice, but on different crops. 



Another fruit of promise for extreme southern Florida and per- 

 haps southern California, is the Litchi, which is well known to 

 the American public in the dry state. It is a delicious fruit when 

 fresh, and in China it is as popular as strawberries are with us. 



The Chinese have also developed out of one of their haws, 

 Crataegus pinnatifida, some varieties that bear large fruits which 

 are fine for preserves. One really is surprised to notice how little 

 interest the Americans have taken in the hundreds of species of 

 haws which are indigenous here, and some of which produce excel- 

 lent fruits. If some of you care to pay a visit to the wonderfully 

 beautiful Arnold Arboretum at the time the haws are ripening, 

 you will be amazed at the great number of promising forms, which 

 are all native to the United States. 



As the closing subject I want to draw your attention to the bam- 

 boos; no plant is higher estimated in China than bamboo, and the 

 number of uses it is put to is legion. There is a saying in China 

 that one can use bamboo in as many ways as there are days in the 

 year. There are three distinct uses for bamboos, however; the 

 first is to employ it as timber, and special kinds are grown for this 

 purpose; the second is as a vegetable for its edible sprouts, and the 

 third is for ornamental purposes. There are already some beautiful 

 and large bamboo groves on private estates in this country, one 

 near Savannah, Georgia, one at Abbeville, Louisiana, and one near 

 Bakersfield, California, and a century from now perhaps bamboo 

 will have become as common a sight in our southern states as it 

 is in China and Japan. 



