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The f ollowing notes on the jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) : 
"One of the most promising of the foreign intro- 
ductions is the jujube. Several trees of this fruit 
have been on trial since 1907, and all have proved 
hardy and very resistant to the diseases so disastrous 
to other fruit trees. Although it is not produced at 
present on a commercial scale in the United States.it 
is believed to have considerable possibilities, for 
when properly processed the fruit is very palatable 
and quite unlike any confection now offered in the 
markets. Good yields of fruit have been produced each 
season, regardless of climatic conditions." 
Following are the numbers of the jujubes which 
have been sent to the San Antonio Experiment Farm since 
1907: 
No. 17752 - from Changli, China. 
No. 19394 - from Peking, China. 
No. 19397 - from Peesan, China. 
No. 22684 - from Tsintse, Shansi, China. 
No. 30488 - from Chingchowfu, China. 
No. 36853 - from Peking, China. 
No. 37475 - from Lingpao, China. 
No. 38243 - from Paihsiangchen, China. 
Notes on the Pejibaye. 
The paper on the pejibaye (Guilielma utilis Oerst.) 
by Popenoe and Jim6nez , which was published in the Jour- 
nal of Heredity for April, 1921, and which was later 
republished, in part, by the Literary Digest, brought 
requests for seeds of this valuable food-plant from 
all parts of the Tropics. To meet this demand, Mr. 
Jimenez sent from Costa Rica about 15,000 seeds, which 
reached Washington during December ,1921, and January, 
1922. Many of these were distributed at once; the re- 
mainder, several thousand in number, have been planted 
at the Bell Plant Introduction Garden, Glenn Dale,Md., 
in order to have young palms available for distribu- 
tion during the next two or three seasons. 
Attention has been called to the pupunha palm of 
Brazil (S.P.I. No. 47868), which is listed as Guilielma 
speeiosa. From descriptions which have reached us, we 
believe this palm to be the same as the pejibaye, or 
very similar to it. Mrs. Hamilton Rice, who has tra- 
veled extensively on the Amazon, praised it as one of 
