Guiana, British, Georgetown. Mr. I). Mitchell. Care of 
American Consul. Has large collection of mangos there 
and could get plants for us, Swain says. 
Turkey, Bagdad Wm. C. Magelssen. Preparing a report 
re date fibre and expects to send same together with 
quotations soon. Date fibre would make good paper. 
Recent Visitors Who Can Be of Assistance. 
Africa, Congo Free State, Kimpessi. Seymour E. Moon. 
Evangelical Training School. Three years there. 
Knows Yemer. 
Africa, Angola. T. W. Woodside. A.B.C.F.M. , Bihe via 
Lisbon. Sent some bulbs of the rubber plant to N.B. 
Pierce and to Mexico. Has seen it growing. Past grow- 
ing bulb, seeds abundant. Has promised to send 100 
lbs. of these turnip like roots for trial. 
Brazil, Diamantia. Ernest G. Swain, Care W. G. Meyer. 
Diamond miner and horticulturist. 
South Carolina, Columbia. S. P. Verner. Was the General 
Manager for 18 months of the American Congo Co. Pro- 
poses to get seed of the Landolphia Thollonii and 
have them sent in to try in a preliminary way. The 
understanding is that if the plant seems to be promis- 
ing as a crop in this country the getting of large 
quantities of seeds is to be taken up by him. He 
wants to be identified with the introduction of this 
important crop. 
Horth Carolina, Winston-Salem. R. L. Beard. Nigeria at 
Lokoja and at Asaba. Has collected rubber at Issale, 
Uko. 
New Plant Immigrants. 
China, Nodoa, Island of Hainan, South China. Presented 
by Mrs. J. Franklin Kelley, Aug. 29. "Seeds of a fruit 
called the yellow skin, the size of a large marble. A 
tart, delicious flavor; nice cooling drink, lovely} 
jam like, gooseberry in flavor. Grows on pretty, sym- 
metrical tree." Not yet identified. Pobably tropical. 
Japan, Yokohama,. From Yokohama Nursery Co. , August 14. 
Seeds of remarkable chrysanthemums. Pink, purple, red 
white and yellow varieties. 
