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seeing the plant, added a specific name and called it Lissocarpa 
thami 
ed by Spruce 
material is probably in poor condition, for the structure of the 
flowers is still uncertain 
During a Tecent collecting trip to British Guiana, a small tree 
were Spruce’s long-lost Lissocarpa tie ee sa 
specimens were collected in 1922 along the r Maz. 
River in northwestern British Guiana by our tedoa eile 
While Lis. 
the attention of collectors for practically 70 years, these recent 
r 
that it probably grows throughout the whole intervening Pepions 
hich is very poorly known botanically. 
H. A. Gesieon: 
EXPERIMENTS WITH CHINESE CABBAGE 
A conspicuous feature of the plants at the propagating house 
at his cn oh year is a collection of some six hundred plants 
of C many of them with ia or part of their flower- 
clusters covered ‘by y paper bags. The pre esent a a of the 
r. A. B, 
out. 
Studies of Chi bb he Gard 
for several years. For this work, the plants are not encouraged 
to “head u ae but are pate to bloom. They send up tall 
stalks bearing many small yellow flowers of the oe typical of 
| is eee by hand, removing only one or two bags at a 
