KNVE.NTUliY 



51358 to 51360. Maxiiiot esculenta Crantz. Kui)h()ibi!uta'. 



{M. utiiisfiiiiia Poiii.) Cassava. 



From Haiku, Maui County, Hawaii. Cuttings presented liy h\ O. Kiauss, 

 superintwulent of ii.uTicnltural extension. H;nv:iii A^i-icnltuijil Kxiteri- 

 uient Station, through J. M. Westgate, agronomist in charge. Honohilii. 

 Received October 1. 1920. Quoted notes by Mr. Krauss. 



'• The cassava was grown on lOUgh pineapple land, without fertilization and 

 little or no cultivation (aside from the initial plowing under of the old pine- 

 apple stumps and one cross-plowing) to test its adaptability as a rotation crop. 

 Harvested at tlie end of 35 months, on .Tune 15, at the Haiku substation for 

 the first test and at the close of a growing period of 18 months on foui- one- 

 sixth-acre plats tor the second test." 



51358. "Street ichite {early maturing) culinary variety. Firsl lest: 

 Clean roots per acre? 3,360 pounds. Second test: Cliedc rows (no 

 treatments average of four plats, roots per acre. .'5.120 pounds. 

 Fertilized witli 500 pounds of phosphates (half sui)er and half re- 

 verted), average of four plats, roots per acre, G,25S pounds. Fertilized 

 with 1.000 pounds of phosphates (half super and half reverted), roots 

 per acre, 7,712 pounds." 



51359. '•Hitter reil (late maturing) stock-feed variety. First lest: 

 Clean roots per acre, 24,300 jiouuds. Second test: Check rows (no treat- 

 ment), average of four plats, roots per acre, 10.918 pounds. Fertilized 

 with 500 pounds of phosphates (half super and half reverted), average 

 of four plats, roots per acre. 17,970 pounds. Fertilized witli l.OOO 

 poinids of phosphates (half super and half reverted), average of four 

 plats, roots i)er aci-e, 20,902 pounds. Starch recovered, 18 per cent." 



51360. •• Mart ill's I nfennediaie variety. First test: (Mean roots per 

 acre. 7.014 pounds. Second test: Check rows (on treatment), avei-;ige 

 of four plats, roots per acre. 4,320. Fertilized V\ith 50U pounds of 

 phosphates (Jialf super and half reverted), average of four plats, roots 

 per acre. 0.920 iioumls. Fertilized with 1,0<)() jwunds of ]ihosphates (half 

 super and lialf revei-ted), average of four ])luts. i-oots \\e\' acre. 11.802 

 pounds." 



51361. Bambos balcooa Rox]). Poacea;. Bamboo. 



From Lucknow, Oudh, India. Seeds presented by H. J. Davies. superin- 

 tendent, Government Horticultural Gardens, through W. r>embower, Alla- 

 habad Agriculturalln.stitute. Receiveil October 1. 1920. 

 The large and characteristic bamboo of the I'.engal villages, native to the 

 plains of the eastern side of India, extending fi-em Hengal into Assam and Cachar. 

 It differs chiefly from nainhos tiilda in its larger leaves, which are not pubescent 



1 It should be understood that the varietal names of fruits, vefietables. vereals, and 

 other plants used in the.se Inventories are those which the material bore when received 

 by the Office of Foreisn Seed and Plant Introduction and, further, that the printing of 

 such names here does not constitute their official publication and adoption in this coun- 

 try. As the different varieties are studied, their Identity fully establislied, tliolr en- 

 trance into the American trade forecast, and the use of varietal names for them in 

 American literatuie becomes necessary, the foreign varietal deslKuatloiis appearing in 

 these inventories will in many cases undoni)tt!dly lie Lhan;,'od by the spe<-lalists inter- 

 ested in the various groups of plants and the forms of the names brought into harmony 

 with recognized American codes of nomenclature. • 



