The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
1453 
New Plant Immigrants 
Bulletin 160 of the Office of Foreign 
Seed and Plant Production, gives an in¬ 
teresting description of the economic 
value of Job’s tears (Coix laeryma-jobi), 
in Brazil, where this grass is called 
“Tears of Our Lady.” Says the sender 
of the seeds: 
“I found this plant growing in a 
natural state in Brazil and have had it 
under experiment for about three years 
at one of the Leopoldina Railway Coin- 
pan v’s experiment stations. It is a very 
vigorous grower, and produces under al¬ 
most any conditions here great crops of 
excellent forage. It reaches a height of 
10 ft. or over, and a single plant often 
produces 40 to 50 shoots. The yield in 
green forage under favorable conditions 
runs very high, from 10 to even 20 tons 
to the acre, and the yield of grain is also 
very heavy. The seeds are very hard and 
require crushing or grinding before feed¬ 
ing if allowed to mature. But I am of 
the opinion that the best results may be 
obtained from the use of the plant for 
soiling, cutting four or five times during 
the year. The plant stools well, con¬ 
tinually sending up new shoots or stems, 
thereby renewing itself, and lasting here 
for some years. In temperate climates 
it would be an annual, as in the case of 
teosinte and maize. Its favorite habitat 
is a low, moist, or even marshy soil, but 
it will grow successfully in dry soil also. 
I have seen it growing luxuriantly in 
very wet localities, even in water.” 
The grayish white seeds of this plant, 
hard and shiny, are used for necklaces, 
and were formerly reputed to be excellent 
for teething infants to bite upon. It is 
grown in gardens as an ornamental. 
We have seen a number of references 
to the Bonavist bean as a promising 
novelty. Prof. S. C. Harland, of the St. 
Vincent Agricultural Experiment Sta¬ 
tion (British West Indies), gives the 
following description: 
“I discovered this type in a peasant’s 
holding in St. Vincent in the Spring of 
1915 and found that it bred true when 
put into pedigree culture. Under culti¬ 
vation it produces a wiry bush of from 
114 to two feet in height, and bears a 
heavy crop when environmental con¬ 
ditions are favorable. As a cover crop 
for orchards in Florida I think it is worth 
a trial. With me the plants of the bush 
Dolichos always flower when five weeks 
old and ripe pods are produced at eight 
weeks. Often a second crop of pods is 
nroduccd. The beaus are quite palatable, 
though they are inferior to Lima beans. 
I should mention that in the course of 
my inheritance studies on Dolichos. I have 
established that the bush form behaves 
as a simple Mendelian recessive to the 
climbing form. In a cross between ‘St. 
Vincent Bush’ (white) and ‘Purple Sou¬ 
dan’ climber. I have isolated pure bush 
types of varying vegetative habits. Some 
are much more vigorous than the original 
bush parent. I have also succeeded in 
isolating a bush form of ‘Vilmorin’s 
Stringless,’ by crossing ’Stringless’ with 
the native bush.” 
This Bonavist bean is a form of Doli¬ 
chos Lablab, the Egyptian or hyacinth 
bean, often grown as an ornamental vine. 
The following report is given by F. T. 
Ramsey. Austin, Texas, regarding the 
Methley plum, a variety received from 
Natal, and sent out. for trial by the De¬ 
partment of Agriculture: 
“They were planted April 20. 1916, so 
late that they barely lived through that 
Summer; and last year and the year be¬ 
fore were the driest ever known in this 
country. But today the 10 trees are liv¬ 
ing and have a fine crop of red-fleshed, 
delicious fruit. We have tested, on our 
own place, several hundred varieties of 
Plums and have larger ones ripening now, 
but this one probably ‘takes the cake’ 
for quality of texture and flavor among 
the very early plums. The trees are ideal 
in appearance, outline and vigor. The 
fruit is borne largely on the old limbs, 
so that the young limbs do not break off 
easily. Jam or jelly made from these 
plums will equal in brilliancy, or color, 
that from either Satsuma or Sultan. 
Sultan lias proved to have a weak con¬ 
stitution in our climate, and Satsuma 
does not come into bearing at as early 
an age. nor does it bear as profusely, as 
the Methley plum. Satsuma is of little, 
if any, better quality, although it ripens 
at least a month later.” 
A pear that is believed to be highly 
resistant to blight is Pyrus Calleryana, 
from ( hiiia. It is a widely distributed 
species and according to Wilson is com¬ 
mon in western Hupeh, from river level 
up to 1.500 meters (4,900 ft.) altitude. 
It has comparatively small, glabrous, 
eremite leaves, and small flowers. The 
fruit is about 1 to 1.4 centimeters (2-5 to 
V? m.) in diameter. It is extremely 
adaptable, one specimen figured in Bul¬ 
letin 160 growing close to the brink of a 
pond or creek, while another is in sterile 
decomposed porphyritic rock on a greatly 
eroded mountain top. No pear has yet 
been found thoroughly resistant to blight, 
but this Chinese species is said to show 
great promise, especially as it shows such 
adaptability to varying conditions. 
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say, mother, why was Goliath surprised 
when David hit him in the head with a 
stone?” Mother: “I’m sure I don’t 
know.” Willie (triumphantly) : “Be¬ 
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