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26120 and 26121. Feijoa sellowiana Berg. 



From Los Angeles, Cal. Presented by Mr. H. Hehre. Received October 11, 1909. 

 Seeds of the following: 



26120. "These fruits were raised from a plant imported by me from Europe a 

 number of years ago and which has been bearing regular crops for five or six 

 years." {Hehre.) 



26121. "These fruits are from a plant originated by me from seed imported 

 from Europe; it has not been named. Ripens later than the preceding 

 variety." {Hehre.) 



' ' Feijoa sellowiana is worthy to be mentioned under promising new fruits and 

 deserves the widest distribution. The plant stands more cold than the guava, 

 is beautiful in bloom, and is evergreen. The fruit is green and when ripe has 

 a tinge of yellow. As it blooms for a period of about two months, so does the 

 fruit ripen successively for two months; therefore there are all sizes of fruit on 

 the plant at the same time, which grow at the leaf axil on new wood." {Hehre.) 



Distribution. —Found in the province of Rio Grande do Sul, in the southeast- 

 ern part of Brazil, and in the vicinity of Montevideo, Uruguay; cultivated in 

 southern Europe. 



26122. Solanum sp. Potato. 



From Castle Kennedy, Scotland. Presented by Rev. J. Aikman Paton, Soulseat. 

 Received October 19, 1909. 



"Tubers of Solanum etuberosum (so called; I think it is a wild hybrid of S. tubero- 

 sum, simply), which I used as the parent of my ' Immune ' strain. A certain proportion 

 of the 'selfed ' seedlings of it and its hybrids are immune to Phytophthora infestans even 

 here." {Paton.) 



26123. Citrus bergamia Risso. Bergamot orange. 



From Nice, France. Presented by Dr. A. Robertson Proschowsky. Received 

 October 20, 1909. 



Variety mellarosa plena. (Cuttings.) 



26124. Trifolium subrotundum Steud. & Hochst. 



From 70 miles east of Lake Victoria Nyanza, British East Africa, at about 7,500 

 feet altitude. Presented by Mr. E. Blackbun, Salem, Ohio. Received Octo- 

 ber 19, 1909. 



Distribution. — A native of Abyssinia, where it is cultivated as forage, under the 

 name of Mayad; also native of Upper and Lower Guinea. 



26125. Mangifera indica L. Mango. 



From Port of Spain, Trinidad, B. W. I. Presented by Mr. F. Evans, Department 

 of Agriculture. Received October 19, 1909. 

 Julie. "This plant is grafted upon the common mango, Mangifera indica.'' {Evans.) 

 See No. 21515 for description. 



26126 to 26129. Solanum spp. Potato. 



From Bogota, Colombia. Presented by Mr. Eugene Betts, American vice and 

 deputy consul-general. Received October 18, 1909. 



'Tubers of the following; quoted notes received with the shipment: 



26126. "Papas Tocanas. Produced on high, broken ground, mountain sides, 



high and very cold." 

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