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establishment of 300 school gardens among the native Child- 
ren of the Island, "by means of which school gardens new 
vegetables have been introduced. He called attention to 
the interesting sunken gardens in the extremely dry, wind- 
swept region of northern Ceylon, 'probably of Arabic origin, 
by means of which the natives were able to cultivate veget- 
ables throughout the summer. 
BRAZIL. Joao Luederitz, Engenheiro Chefe do Institute Tech- 
nico, Porto Alegre, Brazil. Is interested in the organi- 
zation of an agricultural college for the province of Rio 
Grande do Sul ; in search of trained agriculturists for the 
school. Agrees to investigate the question of the stocks 
used in Bahia for grafting the Bahia navel orange. 
GERMANY. Walter Busse, in charge of all the Tropical Exper- 
imens Stations of the German Colonies. He had just returned 
from a trip through Turkestan and is much interested in the 
possibilities of cigarette tobacco cultivation in those 
colonies. He will be glad to secure for us seeds of any 
desirable plants growing in the various German colonies. 
JAPAN. T. Watase, President of the Tokyo Plant, Seed and Im- 
plement Co. Mr. Watase is one of the party of Japanese 
Commissioners which has been touring the country and has 
been commissioned by the Mayor of Tokyo to arrange for the 
shipment from Japan to Seattle of the 2000 Japanese flower- 
ing cherries which have been presented by the Mayor of 
Tokyo to Mrs. Taf t . 
JAPAN. Prof. T. Minami of the Hokkaido Agricultural College. 
He is much interested in the varieties of corn used in this 
country for the production of corn starch. 
TRANSVAAL, Johannesburg. Sir Percy pi tz Patrick. Is inter- 
ested in any forage plants, particularly grasses, likely 
to prove successful when introduced on the veldt of South 
Africa. 
