April 5, 1893.! 



Garden and Forest. 



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In September we hunted the Nikko hills in vain for a seeds which were new to us floating in a pool at our feet 

 seed-bearing tree, and had given up all hope of introducing A search on the bank above discovered a sinsrle tree of 

 this species. Oneday late in October, however, we sat down Acer Nikoense, from which the wind was scattering 



Fig. 26. — Acer Nikoense. — See page 153. 



on the rocks in the bed of a torrent far up on the side of showers of seed. If we had been a day later, or 

 Mount Koma-ga-take, in central Japan, to eat our luncheon, had selected another resting-place, we should have 

 when our attention was attracted by some large Maple- missed one of the best harvests we made in Japan, 



