Inventory 50, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate IV. 



The Imodon Ash of Turkestan (Fraxinus potamophila, S. P. I. No. 44132). 



During his expedition to Chinese Turkestan, Mr. Meyer took the photograph reproduced above at 

 Khanaka and obtained some of the seeds shown hanging on the tree. This species of ash, under 

 the trying conditions of great drought, intense heat, and soil alkali of that region, made a valuable 

 shade'trec. Under S. P. I. No. 306.52; the trees grown from these seeds were distributed in 1912. 

 In 191.i, some young trees were growing at the Fallon Field Station in Nevada. These promised 

 so much for that treeless region that, through the kindness of the British vice consul, Mr. George 

 MacCartney, more seeds (S. P. I. No. 44132) were imported, with which to make a wide distribu- 

 tion. (Photographed by Frank N. Meyer, Khanaka, Chinese Turkestan, December 5, 1910; 

 P56i7FS.) 



