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and the anxiety of sugar interests subsided." ( Fa 1 r child. .. > 
For distribution later. 
VIGNA SINENSIS. (Fabaceae.) 34859. Seeds of a black, 
bean from San Salvador, Salvador. Presented by Mr. Thomas 
Hinckley, American consul-general, who procured them, 
through the Sociedad Naclonal de Agricultura, at the sug- 
gestion of Mr. R. T. Ruiz. "A black pole bean so prolific 
as to defy comparison. It is found in its best state in 
the Department of Chalatenango . The best trait of this, 
bean beside its splendid flavor is the fact that it is 
sown in the same hill with Indian corn at the same time, 
the latter is being sown, and it matures with the corn, 
the stalk of the latter being ^its natural support." 
(Ruiz.) For distribution later. ^ 
NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 
PARAGUAY. Asuncion. Mr. C. F. Mead writes that "Plant 
prospects will be better in the future as within a month I 
shall be at work on the new constructions, one northeast: 
from Borja to Iguazu Falls, and the other directly south 
from Paraguari through the Misslones. There's no telling 
what can be found there." 
INDIA. Coimbatore. Dr. C. A. Barber, sugar cane ex-> 
pert, writes that he has been unexceptedly successful In 
raising seedling canes in India, his present crop being 
probably some 10,000. 
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SIBERIA. Tomsk. Mr. Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural 
Explorer writes Feb. 1 that he is visiting the University 
there to see botanists and collectors there, after which 
he expected "to leave for Krassnoyarsk where a Government 
nursery exists where fruit trees are being cultivated. 
Then on to Irkutsk, then Chita and after that either to 
Nertchensk known for its wild crab-apples, or straight on 
to Harbin, from where I am only a few days distance from 
Peking." » 
CHILE. Santiago. Mr. W. F. Wight writes January 13 
that he will probably be in Chile for at least two months 
and a half carrying on his Investigations on patotoes. 
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MESOPOTAMIA. Tigris River. Mr. Paul B. Popenoe writes 
on Dec. 30, from the Steamer Julnar, that he has been 
delayed for five weeks in Bushire in the hands of the 
