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Sends description of bamboo used for "basket making 
and of the Chrystofine, a green, vegetable-like fruit. 
Says, however, that these oan he more easily obtained 
from Trinidad. 
CHINA, Canton. John M. Swan, Sept. 17. Offers to send 
more lei tehee plants. 
CHINA, Huchow. Dr. C. Herman Barlow, Sept, 5. Sends 
names of doctors and missionaries who may be of use 
to the Department as follows: Rev. P. I\ Price, 
Dongshang, China; Dr. Chas. MacKenzie, Kinhua via 
Shanghai, China; Dr. G. C. Worth, Kiangyu, China; 
Rev. E. E. Jones, Ningpo, China; Rev. T. D. Holmes, 
Kinhua, China; Rev. Alec. Kennedy, Dongsi, China. 
JAVA, Buitenzon?. Dr. Treub, Sept. 9, 1908. Sends seeds 
of Garoinia Benthami, G. celebica and G. porrecta. 
MANCHURIA. N. E. Hansen, Sept. 22. Has just returned 
from an arm of the Gobi desert in Western Ms,nchuria 
with a considerable quantity of Mongolian alfalfa 
(Medicago ruthenica. ) This vigorous, erect-growing 
alfalfa now comes to America for the first time. In 
its native home the mercury freezes several times 
every winter, U3ual3y with snow on the ground and 
with very dry, hot summers. 
RUSSIA, Odessa. Alfred W. Smith, Deputy Consul, Oct. 6. 
Says there is a variety of sweet melon known there as 
Kachanka and sometimes called Tsesarka on account of 
its spotted surface resembling a guinea fowl's plum- 
age. Sends a small package of seed and address of 
dealer in Odessa from whom it can be secured. 
TURKEY, Harput. Evan E. Young, Sept. 17. Promises to 
send Behesni grape vines this fall when leaves have 
fallen. Annouces his change of post to Saloniki. 
Col. Wm. Masterson to be his successor at Harput. 
