900 
large variety of jujube, of round-flattened shape and of 
brown-red color. Meat sweet but of loose texture; much 
used baked in bread and boiled with millet. Chinese name 
Ta hong tsao, meaning 'large red jujube .'" (Prank N. Meyer's 
Introductions and descriptions.) 
Ziziphws mistol Griseb. (Rhamnaceae. ) 40853. Seeds of the 
mlstol from Guemes, Argentina. Presented by Mr. H. P. 
Schultz, Director, Agricultural Experiment Station. "A 
small tree with spiny tortuous branches, subrotund, coria- 
ceous, minutely serrulate leaves, inconspicuous flowers, 
and small edible drupes with large stones. Introduced as 
a possible stock for the Chinese jujube, and for com- 
parison with the Brazilian Jua (Ziziphus Joazeiro) . Found 
throughout northern Argentina as far south as the Province 
of Cordoba. " (Schultz. ) 
NOTES PROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 
Yokohama, Japan, Miss Eliza R. Scidmore writes August 
10, 1915. "The nursery man went up in the air when I sug- 
gested getting slips from the plum tree by the Forty-seven 
Ronin's grave. Impossible!! That tree too sacred to let 
anyone have a hack at it. 
"The Glou cherry tree in Kioto quite possible he 
thinks . 
"Many cherry trees at the Arakawa bank are dead and 
dying. Floods or popularity, the jarring of millions of 
feet have paralyzed the roots. 
"The dog days began a week after I landed, and the 
rice crop ought to be a tremenduous one. 
"The most beautiful sight In Japan is now Mr. Hara's 
garden at San-no-taui, beyond the Honmokee bathing beach. 
A narrow valley with a carriage road crossing and then 
following lotus, lotus, lotus! Pink and white, very tall, 
In full flower, beautifully kept. Like the iris gardens, 
only the iris has not those beautiful big leaves flopping 
up and down. I never imagined anything so lovely. 
"I ran down the morning glory industry for you last 
week — spent a mosquito night at the hotel in Nyeno park, 
and at 5 a.m. motored out beyond Kameido, where the Iriya 
gardeners were driven by the floods six years ago. They 
still grow them--acres of pots--but send them into the 
city for sale. There are no show gardens and places to 
sit and look at benches, etc., full of rare ones. All 
that is over. Too far out now for people to go at sunrise 
and wander from garden to garden as at Iriya. 
