JANUARY 1 TO MARCH 31, 1909. 21 



24451 to 24575— Continued. 



24541. Gossypium hirsutum L. Cotton. 



" (No. 121.) Sample of Upland cotton originally from the United States, but 

 cultivated at least fifteen years on northern limits of cotton belt in Turkestan, 

 about 100 versts north of Tashkend." (Hansen.) 



24542. Gossypium herbaceum L. Cotton. 



" (No. 143.) Sample of the local native Bokhara cotton of Tashkend, Turkes- 

 tan, on the northern limits of cotton culture. I took occasion to study the 

 cotton industry while in Turkestan and found the opinion held by many that 

 the introduction of American cotton seed in Turkestan was not an unmixed 

 blessing. While American cotton is greatly superior to the native Bokhara 

 type for the manufacturer, the American varieties were somewhat inferior in 

 resistance to untimely frosts and were later in season. If this proves true, as 

 a rule, it opens up an interesting field for cotton breeders in hybridizing the 

 American and Turkestan cottons, if that is possible. For Turkestan it would 

 help maintain culture where it is at present in a precarious condition, because 

 of recent great failures from frosts on the northern limits of cotton culture; in 

 America it might aid in the boll-weevil work and in forcing cotton culture a 

 few miles farther north than at present." (Hansen.) 



24543. Gossypium indicum Lam. Cotton. 



"(No. 144.) " Malla hum 1 from Tashkend, Turkestan. 'Malla'' means 

 yellow; 'hnza,' cotton. This is the native cotton used for 'Nah-mazh' or 

 Mohammedan prayer rugs and other holy purposes; not generally sold, but is 

 used mainly for presents. Every native Sart cotton grower raises a little for 

 his own use. This native Turkestan may vary in some particular from the 

 other nankeen or yellow cottons grown elsewhere." (Hansen.) 



24544. Gossypium hirsutum L. Cotton. 



"(No. 147.) Native 'Kara chigis' cotton from Tashkend, Turkestan. 'Kara' 

 means black; 'chigis,'' seed. 'Somewhat like Peterkin, but at least two weeks 

 earlier,' is the experience with it at the experiment station, Turkestan." 

 (Hansen.) 



24545. Gossypium hirsutum L. Cotton. 



"(No. 149.) 'Tashkend Upland' cotton, originally from the United States, 

 but grown for many years at Tashkend, Turkestan. The name has changed. 

 Said to be an early cotton." (Hansen.) 



24546. Gossypium herbaceum L. Cotton % 



"(No. 187.) Native Bokhara cotton as raised at Tashkend, Turkestan. See 

 No. 143 (S. P. I. No. 24542)." (Hansen.) 



24547. Gossypium herbaceum L. Cotton. 



"(No. 189.) Another sample of 'Malla huza,' the native yellow or holy 

 cotton of central Asia, as grown at Tashkend, Turkestan. See No. 144 (S. P. I. 

 No. 24543)." (Hansen.) 



24548 to 24550. Trifolium suaveolens Willd. Shaftal. 



24548. "(No. 125.) The main lot of Persian clover from Meshed, 

 northeastern Persia, and grown one year at Tashkend, Turkestan. 

 Shabdar is the Persian name; as grown in India it is called shaftal. 

 An annual plant of extremely vigorous growth. In Persia and Afghan- 

 istan it is cut two or three times during the season. Flowers small, 

 bright pink, very fragrant, much visited by bees. Adapted for the 

 dry part of the cotton belt and for the driest regions of our Southwest. 

 This cultivated form is decidedly stronger in growth than that occurring 

 wild farther west into Europe and northern Africa." (Hansen.) 

 162 



