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CORFU, Ch«s. Sprenger, April 2. Speaks of a seedless mandarin 
of Italy, of which he promises to send cuttings next season. 
NORWAY, Roikenvikeh. Lars Hvinden, April 1. Sends samples of 
a new clover which he discovered and has grown for three 
years. The Experiment Station there is trying it. It is 
earlier than Moisted and Toten, and has "been called Hvinden 
o lover. 
RUSSIA. MR. PRANK N. MEYER, AGRICULTURAL EXPLORER. 
Mr. Meyer reports that he has learned of only one variety of 
chickpea in Southwest Russia; that they make a puree from it 
which is much better than the one made from peas and lentils. 
Mr. Meyer has found some fine pomegranates, excellent table 
grapes, apricots, muskmelons, rare varieties of grains and 
some important wild, drought-resistant species of Amygdalus, 
Pyrus , eto . 
EHffiLAND. Dr. Pehr Olsson-Seff er has organized a company in 
England for the exploitation of two new rubber plants in 
Mexico; species which have not heretofore "been cultivated 
for their rubber, one a species of Plumeria, and the other a 
species of Jatropa which furnishes a gum intermediate between 
ballota and gutta. 
