Last fall Mr. Nelson, gardener to Mrs. Chandler, in Germantown, Philadelphia, fruited and exhibited before the Germantown Horticultural Society noble specimens of the Japan Persimmon. They were like small oranges rather than specimens of the ordinary native fruit. This plant was a small one, left behind by the Japanese after the Centennial International Exhibition in 1876, and planted in Mrs. Chandler's garden, which is much sheltered, as most city lots are. During the winter of 1880-81 it froze to the ground, but sprouted up strongly from the roots the next summer. During the winter of 1881-82 it was protected by boards on two sides, the boards facing northeast and northwest. It went through the comparatively mild winter without injury, and this summer made a bush of about six feet high, and was loaded with fruit. Mr. Nelson says there was much difference in the size of the fruit on the bush. Some were no larger than marbles, though many were of the huge size as those exhibited.