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INDIA, Gonda, United Provinces. Is sending seed of Papaya. 
Says this is an excellent fruit and almost constant in its 
production. It will stand as much frost as an orange tree. 
It prefers a fairly moist soil. Says those from Bangalore 
are the "best and he will send seed of them later. 
INDIA, Poona, Bombay Presidency. Will send specimens and 
seeds of a grass used there for thatching roofs. Its ver- 
nacular name is Surad. Botanical name Andropogon Schoen- 
anthus . 
PHILIPPINE ISLANDS, Manila. Wm. S. Lyon, May 20. Can send 
Diospyros discolor in October or November. Will send 
Caesalpinia nagua in about a month. 
SPAIN, Valencia. Chas. Winans, May 14. Sends a report re- 
garding the cultivation, profuction and uses of chufa 
(Cyperus esculentis), so much employed for the manufacture 
of ices or 'Horchatas' all over Spain. 
TURKEY, Erzroom. Robert Stapleton, May 25. Thinks that 
Medicago papillosa is abundant there. Will watch for it 
and send in season. 
RECENT VISITORS. 
CHILE. Mr. Andrew Kerr, Amerioan Consular Agent, Coquimbo, 
Chile and Prederico Eggers, Osorno, Chile. Mr. Eggers 
lives in the southern part of Valdivia. He thinks that 
the quila (Chusquea quila) is hardly worth cultivating. 
They use it as a cover for their cattle in winter and the 
animals fatten on it remarkably just as they do in our 
canebrakes. 10,000 animals starved to death in South 
Chile because this bamboo seeded everywhere and then died. 
These men will be in American for some time and are inter- 
ested in many practical problems of agriculture. 
CHINA, Shanghai. Mr. D. McGregor. He is in charge of parks 
and open spaces in Shanghai and is familiar with the 
problems of Chinese ornamental plants. 
ISLE OP PINES. Dr. Ramsdel. Has 12 living mangosteen trees, 
2 feet high with 4 to 6 branches. They are planted in a 
swampy hollow. These plants were sent to him in 1905-06. 
Has 2 plants of Garcinia morella which are ten feet high 
and growing finely. Thinks this morella will be as easy 
to grow as the mango and much easier than the mangosteen. » 
ISLE OP PINES. J.L. Pearcy. A special experimenter with- 
tropical fruits. 
