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covered with quantities of berries with a tart flavor quite different 

 from the supersweetness of the ordinary mulberries. It deserves a 

 place in our dooryards where there is not room for a mulberry tree. 



Of new or little-known ornamentals the following seem to promise 

 unusual interest: A gorgeous yellow-flowered shrub from New Zea- 

 land {Pomaderns elliptica., No. 45892) ; a Chinese Gordonia from 

 Hongkong {G, axillaris, No. 45718) ; the beautiful Amygdalus triloba 

 (No. 45727), a flowering almond which ranks as one of the most 

 beautiful of blooming shrubs; Rosa helenae (No. 45729) from western 

 Hupeh, where it forms thickets 6 meters across and as many meters 

 high, which are covered with masses of fragrant white blooms, ac- 

 cording to its discoverer, Mr. E. H. Wilson ; Hydrangea yanlculafa 

 praecox (No. 45733), the seeds of which Prof. Sargent collected in 

 Hokkaido, Japan, where it makes a growth of 20 feet in height; and 

 Acokanthera spectahilis (No. 45748), a flowering shrub from south- 

 western Africa sent in by Mr. Walsingham, of Cairo, which has 

 pure-white, scented flowers borne in short, dense cymes. 



The botanical determinations of seeds introduced have been made 

 and the nomenclature determined by Mr. H. C. Skeels, while the de- 

 scriptive and botanical notes have been arranged by Mr. G. P. Van 

 Eseltine, who has had general supervision of this inventory. The 

 manuscript has been prepared by Miss Esther A. Celander. 



David Fairchild, 

 Agricultural Explorer in Charge. 



Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 



Washington, D. C, August 19, 1921. 



