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NOTES PROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 
Jamaica. Port' Antonio . Mr. M. Cork writes June 6: 
"There are several ways of using • the Papaya In cooking 
meat; the fruit 5 is used 1 green, peeled, -but In slices and 
laid on the meat',- left there for 10 or 15 minutes. Then 
-the meat ie cooked; or the leaf and stalk can -be bruised 
and -the ju'iee put on the meat which Is cooked at once. 
•The' best way -Is to experiment, for the papaya there may 
not be as strong as the one here. There Is an old saying 
here that if an animal were to be tied under a papaya tree 
and left there 5 for an hour It would die. My cook uses 
the stalk of the papaya leaf when cooking steak, peels the 
•stalk and cuts it In slices, then puts it on the steak and 
beate it gently- so that the juice comes on it. She then 
pours a little vinegar over it all and leaves it to soak 
into the steak for five or 10 minutes. She then puts it 
on the fire and covers it up, and when it begins to steam 
takes the papaya away. That with the vinegar gives a nice 
flavor to the meat. Of course If the meat is very tough it 
may require longer than 10 or 15 minutes to make it ten- 
der. Another way is to bruise the leaf and wrap the meat 
in it, but five minutes ought to be long enough done in 
that way. Always use a little vinegar; It helps both to 
make the meat tender and gives a nice flavor." 
China. Shanghai. Mr Frank N. Meyer writes June 17: 
"In speaking about diseases, this reminds me that here in 
Shanghai the '< white -wax insect has become a serious pest in 
privet^hedges {lAgustrwm luciduwi) and Is very hard to dis- 
lodge. Mr. D. MacGregor, Superintendent of parks here, 
showed me the other day several dead bushes in a large 
privet hedge, disfiguring the whole ensemble and caused by 
this white-wax insect and by some large globular scales, 
of which I have collected some. 
"On June 12th, I bought 250 pounds of fresh lytchee 
fruits and had them cleaned and washed; they cost 8jzf Mex. 
silver per pound, but I got only about 20 lbs. of good 
seeds out of them. Now the problem is -however that these 
lytchee seeds started to germinate already on Tuesday 
morning and I had to remove them to the cool room of the 
hotel. I am intending to put them in the cool room of the 
S„ S. Manchuria, which leaves on June 25th for San Fran- 
cisco . 
"I am not -Sure at all whether I can obtain any inarch- 
ed lytchee plants. The nearest place they have them is 
Foachow and then again near Canton. Both these places 
have, dialects all of their own and one needs special in- 
