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28826— Continued. 



of bone dust, 5 hundredweight of superphosphate, and 3 hundredweight of potash, 

 making 15 hundredweight to an acre. If the winter is fairly warm a winter crop can 

 be grown by cutting off the lateral growth a foot below the wires in the late spring or 

 early summer and then manuring, but if the winter is not mild I would simply go in 

 for the natural summer crop — prune as above late in winter and manure early in spring. 

 The vines are raised in seed boxes from the seed. Simply wash the pulp out of the 

 fruit and dry the seed; plant out when about 6 inches high. Do not allow any lateral 

 growth until the wires are reached. We plant in Australia about the end of Septem- 

 ber or the beginning of October. Shelter young plants until they get started. Some 

 fruit will be obtained the first season and a full crop the second season. The vines 

 are about done in four years. The passion flower does wonderfully well in the sandstone 

 country around Sydney, yet it grows almost wild in the semitropical climate of the 

 northern rivers of New South Wales." {James Moody, Toomuc Valley Orchards, Mel- 

 bourne, Australia.) 



See Nos. 1906 and 12899 for description. 



28827 and 28828. 



From Puerto de Orotava, Teneriffe, Canary Islands. Presented by Dr. George 

 V. Perez. Received September 16, 1910. 



Seeds of the following: 



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28827. Cytisus proliferus L. Tagasaste. 



Variety palmensis. "This is a splendid forage plant and very drought 

 resisting. The failures with it are due to ignorance of farmers and to not cut- 

 ting back the plant. Cattle and horses have to learn to eat it; they relish it 

 ever after. In the island of Palma (Canary Islands), where it is native from 

 time immemorial,' it has been used with the greatest success possible. It is 

 quite as nutritious as lucern and does not want irrigation. I know of nothing 

 that will fatten cattle and horses so much. In Palma there are large districts 

 planted with it where cattle and even pigs eat it at liberty. Chaffed and 

 mixed with straw it is excellent. The ^eed must be scalded in boiling water 

 before sowing." (Perez.) 



28828. Echium simplex DC. 



"The so-called Pride of Teneriffe, a lovely, showy, native plant, remarkable 

 for its single tall spike of white flowers reaching from 2 to 3 yards high. From 

 what I have seen and observed I have come to the conclusion that besides 

 being a very ornamental plant it could be turned into a most valuable fodder, 

 beating the prickly comfrey, over which it has the advantage, like all plants 

 of the Canary flora, of being drought resistant. The idea is entirely my own 

 after watching in one of my properties how greedily my cows eat it." (Perez.) 



28829 to 28832. 



From Togo, Africa. Presented by Mr. G. H. Pape, through Mr. A. B. Conner, 

 scientific assistant, Chillicothe, Tex. Received September 29, 1910. 



Seeds of the following: 



28829. Vigna unguiculata (L.) Walp. Cowpea. 

 Tan. 



28830 to 28832. Voandzeia subterranea (L.) Thouars. Woandsu. 



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