One of Mr. Prank N. Meyer's plant shipments ready 
to be sewn up in cloth and dispatched to Washington from 
Chengchow, Honan, China. Collectors often do not realize 
that many species' of plants which are not bearing seeds 
when they are found can be transported to America in the 
form. of cuttings provided they are carefully wrapped up in 
slightly moist sphagnum moss and covered with waterproof 
oil paper. Specially prepared directions for sending cut- 
tings will be sent to foreign correspondents on applica- 
tion. Photo. No. A 12, by P. N. Meyer, Feb. 25, 1914. 
