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orange, the light pink sides of the cup and the veins of 
white and yellow embedded in it are visidle. The separate 
segments are "between snow white and ivory in color and are 
covered with a delicate network of fibers and the side of 
each segment where it presses against its neighbor is trans- 
lucent and slightly tinged with pale green. As one poises 
the dainty bit of snowy fruit on his fork and looks at the 
empty pink cup from which it has "been taken, he hardly knows 
whether the delicate flavor or the beautiful coloring of 
the fruit pleases him the more, and he invariably stops to 
admire the rapidly deepening color of the cut rind as it 
changes on exposure to the air from light pink to deep 
brown. The texture of the mangosteen pulp much resembles 
that of a well ripened plum, only it is so delicate that 
it melts in your mouth like a bit of ice cream. The flavor 
is quite indescribably delicious and resembles nothing you 
know of and yet reminds you, with a long after taste, of 
all sorts of creams and ices. There is nothing to mar the 
perfection of this fruit unless it be that the juice from 
the rind makes an indelidle stain on a white napkin. Even 
the seeds are partly or wholly lacking and when present are 
so thin and small that they are really no trouble to get 
rid of. Where cheap and abundant as in Java one eats these 
fruits by the half peck and is never tired of them; they 
produce no feeling of satiey as the banana and mango do, 
for there is little substance to the delicate pulp. It 
promises to be a good shipper as fruits retain their fla- 
vor for 26 days from the time of picking. (Pairchild . ) 
For distribution later. 
GLADIOLUS SP. 26142. Prom Pretoria, Transvaal. South Africa. 
Preaented by Mr. P. T. Nicholson. Received Oct. 25. 
Por distribution later. 
GLYCINE HISPIDA. 26051-054. Pour varieties of soybeans from 
Nanking, China. Presented by Dr. P. B. Whitmore. Received 
September 15. Por distribution later. 
GOSSYPIUM. 26136. Prom Nyasaland Protectorate, British Cen- 
tral Africa. Presented by Mr. J. Stewart McCall. Received 
Oct. 23. Seed of Egyptian cotton. "Our Egyptian is not 
nearly so good as our Upland." (McCall.) Por immediate 
distribution. 
