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Fresh plants have been put out and others distributed to villagers. 
The present yield of nuts amounts to about 10 maunds. (Progress: 
Report of Forest Administration in the Punjab for 1894-5, p. 14). 
Kei-Apple as a Hedge Plant.—-This repe South African plant 
(Aberia Caffra, Harv. & Sond.) a member of the Annatto Order 
(Bixinez) is armed with long spines and Mus excellent hedges. Ttis 
evergreen and bears fruits like small yellowish apples. When fresh 
they are acid and ae as a pickle; when ripe they make a good jam. 
The Waikato Times of New er recommends the Kei-apple as 
a ce cres in the fokii term 
“ One is always hearing dieit d i qus of the paucity of good 
jante Ed for hedge purposes. This harbours the wheat rust or 
the leech, but dies out in patches, while another would be admirable 
— vis cows not so fond of it. This being so, the thanks of the 
nity are due to Mr. A. Tempest, of Parnell, for his enterprise in 
introduding id propagating the ‘Kei Apple.’ It was Sir George Grey, 
believe, who first mentioned the shrub, which grows wild upon the 
hedge plant. It is a sturdy, stocky, short-jointed T, an evergreen, 
and with thorns which grow to ere inches 1 ng and oret, and erfect 
terror to evil doers, be they beasts or hum s n added 
the female pla wed rwn are of both sexes) fruit heavily, 
bearing in | great quantity yellow plum-shaped fruit, the size of a green 
gage, which are both pleasant peer and make an exquisite jam. 
Orchardists would do well to bear this shrub in mind when pla nting.” 
To this the eat He a is added in the Agricultural Journal 
of the bed of Goo 
Dr. J. R. Roth.—In consequence of a misreading of the name of the 
collector of a collection of plants made in Abyssinia and presented to Kew 
by the Honourable East iin Company, and the consequent writing of 
this name— Rohr r—on all the labels accompanying the plants, some 
confusion has arisen. Several planis supposed ud be named after the 
comet ims the spurious n Dr. J. R. Roth was the real collector. 
ached as ies trang s a mission sent ix the British Govern- 
ment, "n Wait to Sáhela Selassie, the King of Shoa, in Southern 
Abyssinia. Mr. W. Corn 
* Highlands of ZEthiopia," was at the head of the mission, and in 
book he speaks very highly of Dr. Roth, who contributed the appendix 
on the natural history of the country. Dr. Roth had previously 
travelled in Egypt, Arabia, end Syria, with Drs. Schubert and Erdl. 
Subsequently he became gne of N Natural History at Munich, and 
in 1858 he made another journey to the East, but soon succumbed t to 
mu on das route from Beyruth o Mount in d 
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