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overruns whole fields and cannot "be eradicated. Fruit 
blackish wine color, sweet and of good flavor. Has a 
superabundance of seeds. Grows in "bunches 3 to 4-J- inches 
long, hanging down. Flowers pale purple. No. 2. About 
the same, but not quite such rank growth. Fruit about 
same. Pure white flowers. Mb. 3. From Valdivia. Fruit 
has less seeds and more flesh than the others. Is larger 
and the shape of a beehive. The bunches stand upright. 
The bush grows in the form of a beehive, 5 feet high by 
about 5 feet in diameter. Fruit sweet and of excellent 
flavor. Hardy, prolific. No. 4. Bush about 5 or 6 feet 
high. Fruit shape of a thimble. Sweet and of good fla- 
vor. Color black. 
CHILE, Limavida. Jose D. Husbands, May 24. Sends an exten- 
sive report on quila — its method of growth, location, 
uses, etc. Says it is a natural fodder plant of the high- 
est value — better than any cultivated grass including 
alfalfa. Says it thrives anywhere in moist or semi-moist 
lands where the temperature reaches zero, but not below. 
CHINA, Amoy. Julian H. Arnold, American Consul. June 7. 
Will send pomelo cuttings in the proper season. 
CHINA, Hankow. Sidney G. Adams, May 27. Sends a report in 
regard to the raising of hemp. Will send seeds later. 
COCHIN CHINA, Saigon. Jacob E. Conner, May 13. About July 1 
will ship a Wardian case containing plants of a species 
of Garcinia which grows in the norther part of Cochin 
China. 
ENGLAND, Cambridge. Augustine Henry, June 6. Suggests that 
we plant an acre of Eucommia ulmoides from the Yangtze 
Valley. Says the bark contains gutta percha and might 
yield it in large quantities if treated as coppice. Says 
it grows well much farther north than any rubber tree and 
that it should be investigated thoroughly. 
INDIA, Baroda. B.S. Cavanagh, June 3. Is sending seed of 
Terminalia belerica and Ehyllanthus emblica. 
