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Tue Soronis.—Believed to be a cross between I’. Riparia and 
V. Rupestris and V, Candicans. To its first two parer.ts it owes its 
immunity from the attack of the Phylloxera, and to the last its 
remarkable aptitude for thriving in wet and marshy soils, where 
most other stocks would die. Well adapted for heavy, clayey, and 
Riparia Glabre Giant. 
wet soils. From its last parent it derives a certain degree of sus- 
ceptibleness to anthracnose or black spot, and must receive suitable 
treatment for that disease. A most resisting stock for soils impreg- 
nated with saline substances. ‘The cuttings do not strike so easily 
as those of V. Riparia. 
PERSIMMONS OR KAKI (Diospyros Kaki). 
This fruit is also called Japanese Persimmon, tw differentiate 
it from the American Persimmon (D. Virginiana). It is a pulpy 
fruit, with few and sometimes no seeds, and a yellow fiesh, which in 
some varicties is streaked with brown. On account of its tap-root 
the tree requires deep soil, moist and rich. Plant in 
deeply dug holes. The trees seem to draw much of the nourishment 
from the subsoil. When not ripe enough the fruit is harsh and fla- 
vourless; but when soft and pulpy it is rich, and much liked by 
many; hence the botanical generic name which literally means ‘food 
of the Gods.” The Japanese gather the fruit when just ripe, and 
pack it into cases for a time, when it mellows down and becomes 
eatable. In China and Japan some are eaten fresh and others dried 
