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• -A similar- success has.! beerj ;ofc>tained in Kai. -; iihasselas 

 RoSejIoSweeEWate-f-'Malaga Muscatella and the like have 

 already been grown with ease on bamboo trellis on hillsides. 



Finally, Hokkaido ought to be 'suited for the cultivation 

 of vinifera grapes as judged from the dryness of the summer, 

 but the lack of temperature sufficiently high to ripen them,' hap 

 proved an insurmountable obstacle so far. 



The fact presented above would enable one to see that 

 the successful cultivation of European grapes in our country is 

 much restricted by the influence of precipitations. 



LITCHI AND RIUGANNIKU. 



These two ' fruits are intimately related. Both of them 

 thrive in the warm temperate climate of Formosa and. th? 

 Riukiu Isles, and up to about 31 degrees and 20 minutes N.L. 

 They also grow in the extreme south of the province of Satsu- 

 ma, but they are cultivated mainly in regions lying between 39 

 degrees N. L. and the Tropic of Cancer. Recently, fresh 

 fruits have come to appear in the markets of Toklo about th^ 

 middle of July. Besides, dried fruits are annually imported in 

 large quantities from South China and Formosa. They are 

 sold cheap in home markets. The plants grow, freely out-of- 

 doors in summer from early May to late September in Tokio, 

 but are reared in green houses in other seasons. . 



GINKGOS (The Maidenhair Tree). 



The important Ginkgo fruits are grown neither in orchard^ 

 nor in gardens. We only gather them from gigantic trees 

 which arc left untouched in a quite wild condition. No 

 manuring, pruning and other operations are carried on on 

 these sacred trees, mostly planted within the eholbsures of 

 temples and shrines. The plant is dioecious, and two trees 

 at least are necessary for fruiting. People are well aware Qf 

 this fact and often plant the female trees to the leeward to giy^ 

 them every oppp^ tunity^ for pollination. The plant Occurs in 



