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oblong, acute or obtuse leaves 2f to 5 Inches long, 
purpllsh-red solitary flowers about an Inch wide, and 
oblong, kidney-shaped, red fruits about If inches 
long, in bunches of 18 or 20, with whitish, scant, 
juicy, aromatic, sub-acid flesh without a trace of 
sugar and containing many seeds. (Adapted from Blume , 
Flora Java, Annonaceae, pp. 19-21, plate 4, and from 
P. J. Wester, Philippine Agricultural Review, vol. 6, 
no. 7, p. 321.) 
Notes from Correspondents abroad. 
Mr. Prank N. Meyer writes from Ichang, Hupeh, 
China, April 16, 1917: 
"The day before yesterday I returned here from a 
sixteen days' trip into the mountains and plain of 
this section of the Immense Hupeh Province, investi- 
gating mainly problems connected with Pyrus calleryam, 
Pistaeia ehinensis, tung oil and some minor things." 
"Pyrus calleryam Is simply a marvel. One finds it 
growing under all sorts of conditions, one time on 
dry, sterile mountain slopes; then again with its 
roots in standing water at the edge of a pond; some- 
times In open pine forest, then again among scrub on 
blue-stone ledges In the burning sun; sometimes In low 
bamboo jungle in the company of the Chinese plstache, 
Vitex negundo, Cudrania triloba, the jujube, Ulmus parvifolia, 
Rosa multiflora, etc., and then again along the course of 
a fast flowing mountain stream or on the occasionally 
burned over slope of a pebbly hill. 
"The tree is nowhere found in groves, always as 
scattered specimens and but very few large trees were 
seen. There are reasons for that, namely the natives 
cut down the larger specimens for their lumber, from 
which fine furniture is made, while if a young tree 
occurs at a suitable place it Is most times used as a 
stock for an improved variety of pear. 
"We made a trip of three days to the northwest 
from here to look at a very large specimen of a wild 
pear from which a large village had obtained its name 
(Tang 11 shu ya) but the tree had become old and had 
been cut down 40 to 50 years already. It was said to 
measure something like 11 or 12 feet in circumference. 
The largest trunk I measured was 6 feet In circumfer- 
ence, but it was as a stock for an Improved pear. 
"The name of this wild pear is everywhere around 
here "Tang li." ..meaning "Crab-apple pear", on account 
of the resemblance of its fruit to wild crab apples 
