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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS , Manila. Wm . S. Lyon, Dec. 27. Thinks 
lumbang (Aleurites moluccana) the most valuable complete 
organic fertilizer he has ever used, "besides its value as 
an oil producer. The Chinese get $5100. gold per ton for 
the press cake as fertilizer. Once or twice a week every 
one of the 4-5000 well-to-do Filipino families who have a 
score or more of potted house or yard plants send their 
'muchachos' to the mills for a 2 lb. biscuit of lumbang 
cake, price 20 centavos (10c gold), and so great is the de- 
mand that a hundred pounds cannot be had except by reserva- 
tion. Sends two rices - one a black variety, only a curio, 
the other a fragrant rice, so fragrant that he thought at 
first it had deen doped with some cheap perfume and re- 
fused to eat it, but when he found it was natural, grew to 
be quite fond of it. 
SCOTLAND, Soulseat, Castle Kennedy. J. Aikman Paton, Jan. 10. 
Sends a printed report regarding some of his hybrid Solanums 
together with photographs of tubers and blooms. 
SPAIN, Oporto. Baron de Santellinho, Jan. 14. Will send 
plants of Rosea gigantea. Describes a hybrid of this with 
R. Reijia Marie Henriette which is large and of a rich orange 
yellow. 
- REPORT PROM PRANK N. MEYER, AGRICULTURAL EXPLORER. 
Mr. Meyer has finally been allowed by the Russian author- 
ities to continue his journey to Turkestan. He describes a 
new fodder grass from the Samara Government which is a per- 
ennial Triticum and has not the objectionable running rhizomes 
of T. repens ; a new white millet (Panicum miliaceum) from 
which a fine, white flour is made, used for baking purposes, 
also a good new variety of red millet. Jan. 13 writes from 
Sebastopol and sends cuttings of privet, jasmine, Crataegus, 
pyrus, salix and morus alba, which will be numbered and de- 
scribed in the next bulletin. Describes a new variety of 
Helianthus annuus , the seeds of which are covered with a 
