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CHINA, Hong Kong. Amos P. Wilder, Consul General, March 9. 
Is sending samples of three kinds of native rices. 
CHINA, Ing-ang. Walter W. Williams, March 6. Sends samples 
of several varieties of soy "beans from the Min River, 
200 miles west of Poo chow. Suggests the use of the China 
hamhoo for paper. 
HONDURAS , Tegucigalpa. R. Eritzgar tner , March 27. Will send 
seeds of Matasano (Casimiroa edulis) when the fruits are 
ripe. It is an excellent fruit, hut too soft for ship- 
ment . 
JAVA, Lawang. M. Buysman, March 17. Will try to get Gar- 
cinia dioica; also offers to send Achras Sapota, Nephel- 
ium lappaceum, Lansium domesticum, Persea gratissima, 
Artocarpus integrif olia , and A. incisa. 
JERUSALEM. Ernest P. Beaumont. Is sending sample of the 
cultivated oats grown there; will send wild oats in sea- 
son. 
RECENT VISITORS. 
CHINA. Mr. W. Henry Grant of Hew York, Secretary and Treas- 
urer of the Canton Christian College. It was proposed 
to Mr. Grant that he encourage the estahlishment of a 
small nursery of American plants at Canton; that the 
Department would assist the College in doing this, with 
the understanding that Mr. Groff, who is to have charge 
of the agricultural work at the College, would collect 
and assemble in this nursery valuahle varieties of South 
Chinese agricultural and horticultural plants. These 
he would use as exchange material with the United States 
Government. Mr. Grant has sent a, number of photographs of 
date palm trees in the vicinity of Sinai. 
EGYPT, Cairo. OsToorn Ashton. He accompanied an expedition of 
this office made to the Egyptian oasis of Siwa. After his 
return to Egypt he will send the Department olive and lemon 
cuttings and samples of the golden date of Siwa, which is 
a very delicate date and he says that the growers in the 
oasis say -that the stone is so small that it can he eaten 
I with the fruit. 
