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41421 to 41423— Continued. (Quoted notes by Mr. C. E. Gauss.) 



41421. " .1/i t'ao, meaning 'sweet peach,' is round in shape, as is also 

 the seed. Its appearance is not very nice, as ii has many blemishes, 

 but it tastes very sweet and is more expensive than Pien Vao [S. P. I. 



No. 41422]." 



41422. "Pirn t'ao, meaning 'flat peach.' This peach is larger in size 

 and looks much better than the Mi Vao [S p. |. No. 11421], 1 nit d< 

 not taste as sweet." A sample of the seed shows that it is the ordi- 

 nary peach and not the flat variety. 



41423. (No notes.) 



41424 and 41425. 



Seeds from Yokohama, Japan. Purchased from the Yokohama Nursery 

 Co. Received October 18, 1915. 



41424. Cucurbita pepo L. Cucurbitaeefe. Japanese squash. 

 Chirimen. A round, orange-red, deeply scalloped squash of good flavor. 



41425. Pbtjnus serrueata sachalinensis (Schmidt) Makino. Amygda- 



(Prunus sargentii Rehder.) [lacese. Sargent's cherry. 



Yuma zalcura, from Hokkaido. 



41426. Chayota edulis Jacq. Cucurbitacese. Chayote. 

 (Sechium edule Swartz.) 



Fruits from San Jose, Costa Rica. Presented by Mr. Carlos Wercklg, 



through Mr. J. E. Van der Laat, director. Department of Agriculture. 



Received October 21, 1915. 



" Fiberless cocoros. Very small, entirely coreless, ami fiberless. 1 do not 



know whether the seeds of all the fruits are without testa, hut the only one 



that I could examine was so; simply the cotyledons in a very small cavity in 



the center, without a shell." {WerclcW.) 



41427. Corylus COLURNA L. Betulac* a'. Turkish hazel. 



Seeds from Uochester, N. Y. Presented by .Mr. Richard 1-'.. Horsey. High- 

 land Park, at the request of Air. < \ A. Reed, of the Bureau of riant 

 Industry. Received October 11), 1915. 

 "Constantinople hazel. This hazel is the one which grows t>> be a large 

 tree. One of the specimens in the park at Rochester measured 58 inches iu 

 circumference 1 foot above the ground." (C. I. Reed.) 



"A tree up to SO feet high, with a trunk sometimes 7 feet in girth, covered 

 with pale scaling hark; leaves 21 to c> inches ion-. 2 to u inches wide; broadly 

 heart shaped, coarsely double toothed or almost lobed ; fruits in clusters of 

 three or more, the husks \\ inches wide, with narrow pointed fringed lobes 

 1 inch Ion-; nuts one-half to five-eighths of an inch in diameter. (Adapted 

 from W. ■/. Bean, Trees <ni<i Shrubs il<ir<iii in flu British Isles, mi. i. /,. )m.) 

 See S. P. I. No. 2212 for previous introduction. 



41428. Oi'intia nigricans Haworth. Cactacese. Prickly-pea v. 

 Prom Sydney, New South Wales. Cuttings presented by Mr. .1. H. Maiden, 



director, Botanical Gardens. Received October 22, 1915. No. mi 



