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The Chinese cabbage, or pai ts'ai, Brassica pekinensis, has made a 

 place for itself in American gardening, and there is a distinct impres- 

 sion that it is more easily digested than the ordinary cabbage. A 

 quick-maturing variety for early-autumn use (No. 36114) and a 

 large-headed variety (No. 36113) are recommended to those who are 

 growing this new vegetable. 



Of new fruits the following are worthy of special mention : Eleven 

 varieties of mango (Nos. 36029 to 36039) from India, two of which 

 came from the rainier region of Mozufferpur and may prove valuable 

 for the rainy portions of Porto Rico ; the Pahutan mango (No. 36052), 

 of Manila, which, on account of its great vigor, may be useful as a 

 stock; the Diamond mango (No. 36070), from the Island of Chiloane, 

 off the coast of East Africa, the home of the Lathrop mango; the 

 Chinese bush cherry, or ying tau^r, Prunus tomentosa (Nos. 36086 and 

 36111), which, in the opinion of Mr. Meyer, who discovered pale- 

 fruited and white-fruited forms of it (Nos. 36109 and 36110), is a 

 bush fruit for the home garden in the cold semiarid sections of the 

 Northwest; the Monte Porcio Catone apricot (No. 35701), said by Dr. 

 Gustav Eisen, who knows California fruits well, to be the handsomest 

 apricot he had ever seen, and therefore of interest to Calif ornians. 



The collection of citrus fruits (Nos. 35690 to 35700) made by Mr. 

 Woglum during his search for the white-fly parasites in India has 

 in it some promising new varieties, including a round seedless lemon 

 from Cawnpore, the Kaghzi lime, and the loose-skinned Nagpur tan- 

 gerine. Popenoe's Bedana grape, a small seedless variety from 

 Seharunpur (No. 36040), adds another seedless form to those already 

 being cultivated in California. Tropical fruit growers will doubtless 

 welcome Westerns introduction of the marang, Artocarpus odoratis- 

 sima (No. 36256), a new relative of the breadfruit and the jak 

 fruit, which is a native of the Sulu Archipelago and Mindanao and 

 appears to be juicier, sweeter, and more aromatic than either of these 

 widely grown tropical fruits. They wiU also want to test the galo 

 fruit, Anacolosa luzoniensis (No. 35893), from the hiUy interior of 

 Cavite. Strawberry hybridizers may want to test the wild Fra- 

 garia cJiiloensis (No. 35953), from the Island of Chiloe, where Mr. 

 Wight found it growing on the seashore. 



The demand for early-flowering dooryard shrubs will make the 

 elm-leaved plum of China, Prunus triloha (No. 361 12), a welcome addi- 

 tion, since, according to Mr. Meyer, it produces blooms ranging in 

 color from pale pink to dark violet-rose and is already a favorite 

 shrub among the Chinese. 



As in the previous inventory, the manuscript has been prepared by 

 Miss May Riley, under the supervision of Mr. S. C. Stuntz, in general 



