36 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



55796. GuiLiELMA uTiLis Oerst. Phoenicaceae. Pejibaye. 



{Bactris utilis Benth. and Hook.) 



From San Jose, Costa Rica. Plants purchased through Oton Jimenez, 

 Received September 15, 1922. 



A shipment of plants of the pejibaye. For an extended account of this inter- 

 esting food palm, see the Journal of Heredity, vol. 12, pp. 154-166, April, 1921. 



For previous introduction and description, see S. P. I. No. 54776. 



55797 to 55804. 



From Harbin, Manchuria. Seeds presented by G. C. Hanson, American 

 consul, Harbin. Received September 25, 1922. Quoted notes by Mr. 

 Hanson. 



" The following collection of farm products grown in the Provinces of Hei- 

 lungchiang and Kirin, Manchuria, was prepared for a world's farm exhibit 

 to be held in Lagrange, Ind.. in October. 1922. The seeds are all of the 

 1921-22 crop." 



55797. Cannabis sativa L. Moracere. Hemp. 

 "A variety of hemp grown at Anda." 



For previous introduction, see S. P. I. Xo. 44712. 



55798. Fagopyrum vulgare Hill. Polygonacefe. Buckwheat. 



(F. esculentum Moench.) 



" Buckwheat from Anda." 



55799. HoLCUs sorghum L. Poaceie. Sorghum. 

 (Sorghum vulgare Pers.) 



" Kaoliang from Tzitzikar." 



55800. LiNUM usiTATissiMUM L. Linacea?. Flax. 

 " Siberian linseed from the Ussurisk Railway district." 



55801. Panicum miliaceum L. Poacene. Proso. 

 " Red millet from Tzitzikar." 



55802. SoJA MAX (L.) Piper. Fabacere. Soy bean. 

 (Glycine hispida Maxim.) 



" North Manchurian soy beans ; average quality from the River 

 Sungari district." 



55803. Triticum aestivum L. Poaceje. Common wheat. 

 (T. vulgare Vill.) 



" Manchurian wheat ; 124/125 Zolotnika natural weight ; from Anda." 



55804. Zea mays L. Poacese. Corn. 

 "A yellow variety of maize from Anda." 



55805. Pyrus serotixa X comimunis. Malucese. Van Fleet pear. 



Trees grown at the Plant Introduction Garden, Chico, Calif., under 

 P. I. G. No. 6583. Numbered September, 1922. 



"A hybrid pear raised by the late Dr. Walter Van Fleet at Little Silver, N. J., 

 and presented to the Plant Introduction Garden in 1909. Promising as a 

 blight-resistant cooking and preserving pear for sections where flre-blight is 

 destructive. 



" Origin, Little Silver, N. J. A hybrid probably between Golden Russet, an 

 oriental pear, and one or more of the communis types. Medium to large, 

 roundish, obovate ; skin golden, covered with numerous small round dots : 

 stalk long, stout ; cavity around stalk quite shallow or none at all ; basin at 

 the calyx end more or less abrupt, deep, russet ; flesh whitish, sweet, slightly 

 subacid, granular ; core medium ; seeds few. large ; not gritty. 



"A handsome golden colored pear which when properly ripened makes a fine 

 baking and preserving fruit. The trees are strong and vigorous with large. 



