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in April and May "but, as the region from which they 
oome is a rather cool one, they proba,ble should not 
be regarded as late flowering varieties." (Praile) 
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New or Important Foreign Correspondents Recently 
Heard From or Gotten Trace Of. 
CHINA, Canton Christian College. C. Weidman Groff, Aug. 
12. Letter re peaches. Only two varieties recognized 
in South China. Will send cuttings. 
CHINA, Canton. John M. Swan, M. D. Ang. 12. Promises 
to send peach cuttings. 
CHINA, Ning Yuen Pu, American Baptist Mission. R. Witt- 
wood. Sends varieties of beans, July 3. 
CHINA, Shanghai. Rev. J. M. W. Farnham. Aug. 17. Sends 
wild strawberry seed and promises to send wild pinks. 
GERMANY, Berlin. 0. Warburg, President of Committee to 
Establish an Agricultural Experiment Station in Pales- 
tine. Sept. 9. Writes tha,t Committee has succeeded 
in establishing station in Palestine and asks co-oper- 
ation in study of plants of that region and in culti- 
vation of semi-arid regions. 
ITALY, Plorence. Odoardo Beccari, Sept. 13 Sends in- 
formation in regard to Picus acidula. 
KOREA, Chemulpo. H. P. Meserve, Aug. 22. Promises to 
send "barah" seeds. 
MADEIRA, Funchal. Alaricus Belmard, Sept. 6. Promises 
to send seed of Xanthochymus pictorius. 
PALESTINE, Jerusalem. E. P. Beaumont, Aug. 28. Sends 
prints of rain chart and relief map of Jerusalem. Is 
experimenting with alfalfa. 
PHILLIPINE ISLANDS, Manila. W. S. Lyon, Aug. 15. Sends 
seeds of South Sea Ivory Nut Palm, Coleococcus arnica- 
rum. 
TURKEY, Bagdad. Wm. C. Magelssen, Aug. 14. Has ascer- 
