22 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



36998 to 37001. 



From Erfurt, Germany. Purchased from Haage & Schmidt. Received 

 January 7, 1914. For the experiments of the Oflice of Forage-Crop In- 

 vest igal ions. 



36998 to 37000. Holcus sorghum L. Sorghum. 



(Sorghum vulgare Pers.) 



36998. Black. 37000. Brown. 



36999. White. 



37001. Holcus hai.kpkxsis L. Johnson grass. 

 (Sorghum Italcpensis Pers.) 



37002 and 37003. Phaseolus annularis (Willd.) Wight. 



Adzuki bean. 



From Wakamatsu, Iwashiro, Japan. Presented hy Rev. Christopher Noss. 

 Received January 5, 1914. 



"The adzuki used in this region seems to he identical with the sample you 

 sent me [S. P. I. No. 17851]. I found only one other sort, the white. 



" The Japanese use the adzuki in two ways. They boil them soft and mix 

 them with boiled rice and salt, making a mass called akameshi (red food), 

 which is used particularly on certain festive occasions. They also use them in 

 confections, boiling them very soft, straining through a cloth and mixing with 

 sugar in various ways. There is also an adzuki flour, which is used to make 

 the same confections, but is considered less delicious, though more convenient. 

 I should have said that in making the ordinary an the boiled adzuki are put 

 through a sieve to remove the hulls and then put into a bag and squeezed to 

 remove the excess of moisture. Brown sugars are commonly employed. One 

 variety, yokan, is made by adding kanten [isinglass, a gelatine made from sea- 

 weed] to the an." (Noss.) 



37002. Common adzuki. 37003. Yellow adzuki. 



37004 and 37005. 



From Peking, China. Collected by Mr. Frank N. Meyer. Agricultural Ex- 

 plorer for the Department of Agriculture. Received at the Plant Intro- 

 duction Field Station, Chico, Cal., January 3, 1914. Received here 

 January 8, 1914. 

 Cuttings of the following; quoted notes by Mr. Meyer. 



37004. Foksythia suspexsa (Thui'.b.) Vatal. 



"(No. 1044. December 1, 1913.) A variety of golden bell with flowers 

 apparently larger than the ordinary sort commonly found in European 

 and American gardens. Very resistant to drought and able to stand a 

 fair amount of alkali in the soil, of special value to the drier sections 

 of the United States. Chinese name Huang shou tan." 



37005. Viburnum fragrans Bnnge. 



"(No. 1045. December 1, 1913.) A viburnum, flowering in spring 

 before the leaves have fully come out, bearing fragrant white flowers, 

 carried erect as round panicles. Somewhat stiff in outlines. Able to 

 withstand drought and alkali to a fair degree. Of value in the drier 

 sections of the United States. Chinese name Tan ch'un." 



