42 ^I.KhS AND PLANTS tM PORTED. 



26330 to 26343 —Continued. 



'Royal [nclosun The 'Special Tea' comes from the Chungan magistrate's 

 private stock. TH « ■ Kienningfu plants produce an inferior quality of tea from 

 that of the cliff district. These plants may be raised from cuttings in the 

 spring; those of the cliff district by seed only. 



"The seeds Bhould be soaked in water twenty-four hours before planting, 

 and then planted in the open to a depth of 5 inches in low mounds 3 feet apart; 

 ridges Bhould be made so tin- rain runs freely from the mounds. Considerable 

 moisture after planting is not desirable. 



"The 1 taagon Pool seed sent is from the Wuishan district. All the seeds are 

 authentic, as Mr. Nightingale gathered them personally." {Extract from letter 

 dattd October :■'>. 1909, written by Consul Gracey to Mr. George S. Baker, United 

 States dispatch agent, San Francisco, Cal.) 



26344 to 26352. Rosa spp. Rose. 



From Woods Hole, Mass. Presented by Mr. M. H. Walsh. Received December 

 2, 1909. 



Plants of the following Rambler roses; descriptive notes by Mr. Walsh: 



26344. " Kalmia is a beautiful light Kalmia formed and colored flower, 

 single." 



26345. "Bonnie Belle is carmine and pink, single." 



26346. "Delight, bright red. " 



26347. "La Fiamma, single; intense crimson, with white center." 



26348. " Coquina, as its name denotes, is shell color. " 



26349. "Milky Way, single, white, large flower; an improved wichuriana." 



26350. "Lady Blanche, double white wichuriana hybrid; very dark, glossy 

 foliage; flowers borne in clusters similar to Lady Gay. This variety is deli- 

 ciously fragrant. " 



26351. "Excelsa is double, crimson maroon, with tips of petals fiery scarlet; 

 this will rank as one of the best. " 



26352. ' ' Jessica, a climbing variety, large glossy foliage; large, double flower, 

 cotton white, fragrant; a valuable acquisition." 



26353. Metternichia wercklei K. Schum. 



From San Jose, Costa Rica. Presented by Mr. Ad. Tonduz. Received December 

 4, 1909. 



"Fleshy roots of what Mr. Carlos Werckle calls the 'edible tuber' of Metternichia 

 wercklei K. Schum. (Solanaceae); he experimented with eating these pseudotubercles 

 and found them agreeable and without any poisonous principle. Metternichia wercklei 

 grows in the high plateaus of La Palma, near San Jose, at 5,000 feet altitude. It is 

 sometimes a branching bush, 7 to 10 feet high, which grows in the ground, and some- 

 times a semiepiphyte which grows in rotted trunks of trees or in a hollow of some large 

 tree. Mr. Werckle says that this bush can be propagated very easily by means of 

 pieces of roots. " (Tonduz.) 



26354. Crataegus azarolus L. 



From Acre, Palestine. Presented by Miss Rifka Aaronsohn, Zichron-Jacob, 

 near Haifa, Palestine. Received October 19, 1909. 



"Seed of the large, red-fruited variety." (Aaronsohn.) 

 See No. 26116 for description. 

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