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This place is about 1,600 feet high, and we can count on rain, 
not torrential tropical rains, "but good, growing rains, from 
April 15 to December 15. Prom the middle of December to the 
middle of April there are occasional showers only. The tem- 
perature never goes above 80° and never below 60° F. I have 
had growing side by side, coffee and turnips, sugar cane and 
radishes, lettuce and pineapples, bananas and potatoes, but 
the latter were not a success.* 1 
JAPAN, Sendai. Miss B. C. Pifer writes December 19, 1910 that 
she will send the gampi (Wickstroemia canescens) seed just as 
soon as she gets settled, and will also send the Imperial 
chestnut. She will send both grafts and seed of the Shibu 
Kaki persimmon. She writes that the only reason she can find 
why the Paulownia imperialis is cut to the ground annually is 
to form a good hedge of young growth, remarkable for the 
striking appearance of the leaves. The bean that she sent us 
was of a Wistaria from Formosa, and she will send new seed as 
soon as she receives it. 
NEW ZEALAND, Wellington. Mr. E. Clifton, Director of Agriculture 
writes December 10, 1910 that there is only one variety of 
sweet potato in New Zealand, which will be sent us in March or 
April next. 
NEW SOUTH WALES, Bathurst. Mr. H. W. Peacock, Manager of the 
Bathurst Experimental Parm writes November 29, 1910 that 
Carissa brownii does not grow in his district but he has re- 
quested the Government Botanist to send us such species as 
are available. 
PALESTINE, Jerusalem. Mr. E. P. Beaumont writes December 18, 1910 
that in three or four weeks some of the American Colony will 
be going down to Jericho where the Ononis we request grows 
three, four and sometimes six feet tall. 
PARAGUAY, Villarica. Mr. C. Mahaux writes December 8, 1910 that 
he has a supply of the Eupatorium (or Stevia) rebaudianum, a 
species which at one time was advertised as containing a sub- 
stitute for sugar 16 times as sweet as the latter. The sweet 
substance is a glycerine. He will send us seed later, as he 
has a considerable number of the plants. He is in search of 
Solanum ciliatum for us. The Peijoa, he says, is entirely un- 
known in his part of Paraguay. He has sown imported seeds for 
three years without results. He will also send us Pachira 
(Para nuts), chayotes, Jacaratia (or Carica) dodecaphylla, and 
Carica papaya. 
