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as Kuro mame if boiled, water poured off and a 'taste' of salt 
and a pinch of sugar added to steam into a syrupy coating. 
Eat them with meat. 
"Lima beans or pole beans can match Toroku mame candied. 
The tough skins are the things to eliminate in all these 
beans; and beans take the place of chestnuts, which, being 
three times as dear, are for the uncommonly rich people only. 
"I found the factory where they make the seaweed paper 
for wrapping mizu mame, and the thing is too simple. We threw 
the factory and the whole village into a spasm by arriving in 
a motor car. It is the stuff for wrapping nougat and caramels 
and marron glace-only Kanten (sea weed gelatine) and potato 
starch smeared on a griddle with a brush - and made round or 
square as ordered. The man who makes cannot sell, save 
through his agent in Osaka, whose address I enclose." 
INDIA. Dehra Dun. Mr. F. W. Popenoe writes: Oct. 1, 
1912. "We have been spending the week here at Dehra with Mr. 
Hartless, and tomorrow go down to Saharanpur. I am making an 
effort to obtain all the data in regard to mangos which it is 
possible to get, particularly in regard to the productiveness 
of different varieties and pollination , about which youwrote 
in your letter that reached us at Calcutta. I found it impos- 
sible to obtain much data of value at Calcutta although I went 
through the files in the Museum and took a few notes which I 
think may be of some use, but Mr. Hartless has gone into the 
mango more thoroughly than any one else we have struck, and is 
giving me access to all his records and observations which 
will, I feel sure, furnish some important facts. I am taking 
very full notes and will place them at your disposal when I 
get to Washington next spring. I am also following out your 
suggestion in regard to getting my lines out so that if I 
should come back here at some future time to make a canvas of 
the Indian mangos I could do so. This is a piece of work I 
should like very much to tackle. You are right In believing 
that the whole subject is involved in confusion at the present 
time; I have not, in fact, talked with anyone who knew any- 
thing at all about the subject except Mr. Hartless. He is 
working up the varieties which he is growing at Saharanpur in 
systematic shape, and has written to a number of other govern- 
ment horticulturists In different parts of India asking them 
to do the same for their vicinity. I do not believe that many 
, of them have the same amount of energy as Mr. Hartless, how- 
ever, and am doubtful if a thorough canvas of the whole coun- 
try could be completed in this way. There is, however, quite 
an awakening of interest in the subject, and it is quite like- 
ly that something will be done by the Government men to pub- 
lish data regarding the varieties of their own districts, and 
