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and is often so strongly attached to the wood-like skin of 
the kernel that it is not readily loosened from it. As a 
rule the fruits of kapoelasan are a trifle larger than 
those of ramboetan. There are ten varieties here of the 
latter and probably four of the former. They are pretty 
fruits; when the peel if half cut open they look somewhat 
like French "bonbons . There is no doubt that they will 
draw attention at nice dinners." See photograph. 
SANTO DOMINGO. Horace G. Knowles, Consul, March 4. Mr. 
Knowles sends an interesting letter in regard to agricul- 
tural conditions there. He thinks the sour orange grown 
there will prove a valuable product in Florida and Calif- 
ornia. 
RECENT VISITORS. 
LONG ISLAND, Manhassett. Mr. Vivian Burnett, Assistant 
Editor of the Craftsman, delegated "by Mr. Stickley, owner 
and editor of that magazine, to find out whether new plants 
of an experimental character cannot "be utilized in the 
garden schemes which it is proposed to establish in con- 
nection with the Craftsman institutions. Was very much in- 
terested in the suggestion that various new plants with 
possibilities yet undiscovered might be worked oxxx by 
amat eur craft smen . 
As the result of a conference of a number of the offices 
interested in the systematic work of the Office of Taxonomic 
Investigations on economic plants, and particularly in the 
study and identification of those introduced by the Office of 
Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, it has been decided that 
the Plant Inventory may with advantage be made somewhat more 
botanical in character. It is believed that this series, pub- 
lished quarterly, is a proper medium for the publication of 
new species and of new binomials, as the necessity for such 
publication arises in the endeavor to consistently use correct 
names in the Inventory. With those who send in material of an 
economic species from regions not well explored botanically, 
and desire that the species be published in the Inventory in 
