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Notes on Behavior of Previous Introductions. 
Mrs. Wilhelmine Seliger, 15 Waverly Ave^. , Hart- 
ford, Conn., in a letter dated October 7, 1917, states: 
"In conclusion of my selection for new trial 
plants or seeds, I wish to write of my experience in 
raising the Chinese cabbage, Brassiea pekinensis, the seeds 
of which I received last spring from your Bureau. 
"I have eaten today the first dish of this fine, 
delicious variety of cabbage from my own raising. It 
is a desirable sort prepared either boiled, or eaten 
raw as a salad while crisp; the bleached leaves have 
a fine-grained texture and a mild agreeable flavor. 
For our New England climate, it is absolutely neces- 
sary to sow the seed early v if heads are desired. I 
sowed part of my seed for trial when my peas were up 
above ground. The result was that I got nice, oblong 
heads which were not attacked by the common cabbage 
worm which on other cabbages of our common kinds were 
very abundant. As the directions said to sow the seed 
late in July, I did this; but this second sowing, here 
in Connecticut, is too late for forming heads. I sup- 
pose when frost has affected it, the green leaves, 
which look nice, can be eaten as we do kale. I shall 
try to preserve them by protection in a sheltered 
place for the winter. None has gone to seed of the 
early sowing. In short, it is a desirable addition to 
our vegetables and I honestly recommend it for use, in 
any home garden or market. I exhibited a large head 
at a meeting of our State Horticultural Society a 
week ago, and received the hearty thanks of the mem- 
bers and a certificate of merit." 
Mr. Will B. Munson, of The Munson Nurseries, 
writes from Denison, Texas, Nov. 14, 1917, concerning 
various persimmons and jujubes which he has been test- 
ing: 
"We find the Tamopan very hardy here and the tree 
very vigorous. The fruit is handsome, but it does 
not remain firm as long as the Japanese varieties; 
hence its keeping season is not so long. Its flavor 
is not so high in quality as most of the Japanese va- 
rieties. However, it is quite valuable on account of 
its hardiness, vigor, productiveness, and uniformly 
fairly large size. 
"We have three varieties of the jujube, one of 
which is quite good. They bear very fully and every 
year, regardless of weather conditions. When their 
