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ALGERIA. Algiers. Mr. Walter T. Swingle writes November 
26 to Mr. W. A. Taylor, Assistant Chief, that Dr. Trabut , in 
charge of the Algerian Botanical Service, has offered to send 
us a complete collection of the more, interesting native vines, 
including a seedling Ahmeur bou Ahmeur, the North African' 
original of the Flame Tokay, that is of good quality without 
ceasing to be a good shipper I I have found a very interesting 
new persimmon of the South(?) Chinese type as distinguished 
from the Japanese type. It differs decidedly from the Kaki, 
has larger leaves, green fruit with an odor of jimson weed(!) 
when unripe. Both the common small fruited variety and a new 
variety with fruits measuring two and three quarters to three 
inches in diameter are considered superior in flavor to the, 
red Japanese sorts. Dr. Trabut has the finest collection oft' 
citrus fruits I have ever seen, certainly far superior to; 
anything in America. He has some twenty-five or thirty of 
the principal American sorts growing alongside the choicest 
Old World varieties. Algeria is destined to be THE orange 
region of the Old World - the Spanish and Italian growers will 
never equal the French in skill and alertness and especially 
in ability to fight disease. In some ways the Algerian growers 
are in advance of ours - not having the capital invested in 
old varieties as we have, they are much more ready to test new 
sorts, and Dr. Trabut has for ten years been collecting all 
the cultivated sorts from all the orange producing regions of 
the world. You can see in his garden the Satsuma and King from 
Florida; Unshiu and Kawakami from Japan; Dancey Tangerine,, 
South African Naartjle, Clementine and Saigon No. 19 (these 
lasi two having long leaves unlike our tangerine and two 
months earlier, as early as the Satsuma in this climate) and 
a lot of other loose-skinned oranges in full bearing." In a 
letter of November 30 to' Dr. B. T. Galloway he adds: "I was 
very much impressed by the value of the Clementine Tangerine 
which is by far the earliest of the kidglove type except the 
Satsuma. It is a bright red-orange medium-sized tangerine 
with a special flavor and aroma, not, however, so different 
from the ordinary tangerine as is the Satsuma. A tree sent to 
Florida three years ago and planted on the leased orchard at 
Glen St. Mary showed very marked resistance to cold - probably 
as much as the Satsuma. Dr. Trabut is convinced that it is a 
hybrid of a tangerine with pollen from the 'granlto ' a willow* 
leaved Spanish variety of sour-orange. I do not see any trace 
of sour orange in the Clementine, but I must admit that forms 
very like the 'granlto' do appear among its descendants. Some, 
of the specimens I am sending you show the punctures of the 
fruit-fly, Ceratitis(?) . I fear this would make us a lot of 
