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will be likely to prove valuable in this country. In pursuance 

 of this idea, within the last year there have been imported from 

 the Phillippine Islands eleven named varieties of the best co- 

 coanuts grown there, which were received in good condition, 

 and which have been planted in the extreme southern part of 

 Florida. This is the first lot of named cocoanuts yet intro- 

 duced into this country. Six named varieties of the best 

 mangoes grown in the vicinity of Bombay, India, were obtained 

 and have been planted at Lake Worth, Florida, where the 

 commoner varieties of mangoes were already succeeding ad- 

 mirably. Steps have been taken to secure the choicest grapes, 

 figs, olives and peaches grown in Southern Europe, in Persia 

 and in Palestine. 



The varieties of the kaki or Japanese persimmon, which 

 have been introduced, are almost wholly incorrect as to names, 

 so far as the trees have borne. This is due, in a great meas- 

 ure, to carelessness and ignorance on the part of the Japanese 

 nurserymen, and perhaps to careless handling of the trees af- 

 ter they have reached this country. Recognizing this fact, 

 the Pomological Division has been endeavoring for the last 

 three years to correct the nomenclature of this fruit. Illustra- 

 tions and descriptions have been obtained from Japan, and 

 correspondence has been undertaken with the best authorities 

 on the subject in that country and in this, as well as with the 

 fruit growers in the southern states and in California. In 

 1887 these investigations resulted in determining the correct 

 names of three varieties and the result was incorporated in 

 the report of the Pomologist for that year. In 1888 the prev- 

 alence of the yellow fever in the state of Florida, from which 

 the largest share of the specimens have been obtained, pre- 

 vented the continuation of the work in a great measure, so 

 that very little progress was made that year. In the fall of 

 1889 a very large number of specimens were obtained from all 

 the states in which this fruit grows, and material progress has 

 been made. At least six additional varieties have been thor- 

 oughly identified. It seems now quite likely that the nomen- 

 clature of this fruit will be in a great measure corrected. 

 There is much difference in the quality and market value. 

 Among the best varieties may be named Yemon, Hachiya, 

 Tane-Nashi, Yeddo-Ichi, Yamato, Hyakume, Daidai Maru 

 and Tsuru. Information has been received that in the 



