H. F. Hillenmeyer, Lexington, Ky., says : "I send by mail to-day sample of seedless persimmon. The tree is some forty years old, and has always borne such fruit - not one in a hundred having seed. The tree is heavily loaded this season, and the samples are hardly as good as last year. We hope to fruit this variety on our own place next year, and if among other trees, bearing and non-bearing, the peculiarity be preserved, I think it will be quite an advance."

[The common persimmon varies in the number of its seeds in different trees. Sometimes we find four or more, sometimes two only, and in some rare cases none. The matter is of some interest to physiologists, who often wonder whether the fleshy envelopes of fruits can mature in the absence of pollinization. As the seedless persimmon could probably get pollen from other trees, it would perhaps indicate that the flowers were pollinized, but that some latent weakness prevents the ovaries from perfecting, though fertilized. As to the practical worth of a first-class persimmon without seeds, there could be no question. It would rank with the seedless grape, as well as the currant of commerce, which is a small grape without seeds. - Ed. G. M].