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and in late summer, some of them have become spur-like and 

 begin to show flower clusters at the top. The other rapidly 

 grown shoots never bear flowers on them. The flowering 

 begins usually in late October and continues till early December. 

 The plant is evergreen, and the fruits continue to grow larger 

 gradually during the winter and ripen in the early part of 

 June. From its flowering habit it is well considered that the 

 larger part of Ura-Nippon is not favourable for loquat culture, 

 owing to the heavy rain or snow-falls which always prevail in 

 the late autumn and winter. But the case is quite different in 

 Omote-Nippon. T he dry, sunny weather from the autumn to 

 winter in Omote-Nippon has no little favoured the setting of 

 fruits. Thus, loquat growing has arisen and developed in many 

 parts of Omote-Nippon. At present, the best fruits are 

 produced in localities from 35 degrees N. L. southwards. 

 Amongst them, the groves of Mogi, a fishing village near 

 Nagasaki and Sakurajima, an Island in the Gulf of Kagoshima 

 produce immense crops, while those of Tamura in the province 

 of Kii and Namuya in the province of Awa have also been 

 famed for their superior produce. 



PEACHES AND NECTARINES. 



There are a number of \arieties of our native peaches 

 and nectarines. From the extreme south of Formosa to 

 Hokkaido, local forms are cultivated side by side with Western 

 and Chinese varieties, which are all much superior to ours in all 

 respects. During the past twenty years, the growing of 

 introduced peaches has replaced the native one with striking 

 rapidit)'. Their growing seems to be naturally limited in 

 Hokkaido to the south part up to about 43 degrees N. L. 

 The midseason and late varieties do not properly ripen there 

 and peach growing consequently does not develop to be a 

 profitable industry in Hokkaido. Peaches are rather easy to 

 cultivate and seem to be less susceptible to the effects of 



