DECEMBER I$, 1875.] 
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DIOSPYROS KAKI. 
THE E accompanying figure (fig. 158) was made from 
plant was imported a few years ago from Japan, 
where, as well as in China, these trees have been long 
cultivated, and many varieties are known. In China 
the trees, according to the French traveller, Father 
David, have the size of the larger of our Apple trees, 
| addition to the илер ш ira can be produced in 
this coun try, and, tree thrives 1 and 
ripens its fruit in Td clin m of Paris, it is quite 
desirabl try what can be done with it i 
it difficult SEM ipe fruits in a 
perfectly тоску ГАЕТ wai 
ven n ornamental tree, gm its large p 
leaves » independent of the а shall be glad to 
e gla 
mongst us this € ideae с species of the 
Ebony. ес IV, P, Н. [The fruit was very juicy, 
one of the Aroidez called Corazon de Jesus, and a 
few others that are general favourites, But the floral 
luxu p acc lth in other 
such as England and France, may be said 
savage plants of the mou ntainous regions of the most 
distant parts = the w brought home to the conser- 
о be edu aught to 
| has seen the Espiritu Santo plant of Panama, though 
Fic, 158.—FRUIT OF DIOSPYROS KAKI, VAR. COSTATA, GROWN IN THE ISLE OF WIGHT, 
but € shape is more rounded and more elegant. 
the month of October mer are in all their "don, 
laden with a multitude o its of the size and 
colour of Oranges, he in form and 
favour, and the best kinds are Mon p by 
Seeds, whic c eA 
the pis is like Met e росы: чй ere a some 
0 
lines m — mar 
f ern wards 
e. enlarged persistent four-lobed Gee ут the 
| There can be no doubt but that this is a valuable 
| with a taste like 
nd s a ae knife speedily changes the flesh from 
Apricot colour to black. Eps.] 
serena to the opening there is for a more extensive 
trade 
e Apricots—not in the least dry. The 
ORCHIDS OF PANAMA. 
THE Panama Star, received by the last mail, calls 
n Orchid bulbs from the Isthmus as follows :— 
anama ladies in general are fond of flowers, 
and there are few balconies without some flowering 
plants—the Florde Verano, a small but fragrant species 
of Passion-flower, Pelargoniums, the Blue Pea-flowers, 
if it were pointed out to him under its baptismal nam 
of Peristeria elata, he might be apt to — he never 
heard either of person or Plant w yc h 
nyhow, these are P pM in Eur oe s and 
the Isthmus of Panama might "T ee a se чаты 
гы Orchid bulbs for "the London vmi 
ry that the collector should know 
bot any and gardening than what нв be required 
Pi the collector of Caucho or Ivory Nuts ; but, this 
ve being ы, - x s maid but that the 
trade in Orchids, Palms, Dra and Cypri- 
мутын might be set on Pa ot. 
_ These Orchids or wild flowers, so much appreciated 
in the ‘gantens of royalty and rich people abroad, 
shop ар species of great beauty and rarity in the 
