SElTKMliEK, li)UO, TO DEOEMliEK, l'J03. 77 



6342. Ceratonia siliqua. Carob. 



From Vilmorin-Aiulrieux i*t Co., Paris, Fraiuv. Rt'cciv.Ml April •_'•_', Mtni. 



6343. QuERCUS ILEX. Green truffle oak. 



Obtained throujih Yiliiiorin-Andrieux <k Co. froiu Mr. A. Rousseau, Carpentra.^, 

 Vaucluse, France. Received April 22, U>01. 



6344. QuERCUS pubescens. White truffle oak. 



obtained through Vihnorin-Andrienx & Co. from Mr. A. Rousseau, Carpentras, 

 Vaucluse, France. Received April 22, 1901. 



6345. C^UEBRACMiA LORENTZii. Quebracho Colorado. 



From Ronaldo Tidblom, director of agriculture and animal industry, Buenos 

 Ayres, .Vrgentina. Received April 22, 1901. 



From the semidesert territories of Chaco and Formosa. 



6346. AspiDOSPERMA guEBRACHO-BLANCO. Quebracho bianco. 



Presented bv Ronaldo Tidblom, director of agriculture and animal induf^try, 

 Buenos Ayres, Argentina. Received April 22, 1901. 



From the semidesert territories of Chaco and Formosa. The name given by Sig. 

 Tidblom was .1. quebracho Schlect., which does not appear in the Kew Index. 



6347. Vaccinium vitis-idaea. • Mountain cranberry. 



Presented by Prof. Theodor Erben, of the agricultural-botanical experiment sta- 

 tion of Tabor, Bohemia. Received April 25, 1901. 



C348. KuBUS IDAEUS. Raspberry. 



Obtained from France by Mr. G. B. Brackett, Pomologist, U. S. Department of 

 Agriculture. 



"This belongs to the I{. Idaeus group. The plant is a strong, upright grower, 

 everbearing in its habit. The fruit is large, red, and of excellent quality. It ripens 

 from July to December.'' {Brackett.) 



6349. PiSTACiA VERA. Pistache. 



From Athens, Greece. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild (No. 569, March 

 3, 1901), April 27, 1901. 



Female trees. Three-year-old trees budded the winter of 1900-1901 and the pre- 

 ceding winter. 



"The pistache is a valuable nut tree, well suited for culture in regions having a hot, 

 dry climate. The nuts sell in this country from 40 cents to $1.25 a pound, wholesale. 

 They are already extensively used in America for flavcjring confectionery and ice 

 creams, and it is contidently'expected that they will be widely used as a table nut, 

 to be served like the almond, as soon as they become better known. In the eastern 

 Mediterranean countries, where the pistache is the best known and choicest nut, it is 

 nuich more used for eating from the hand than for flavoring. These nuts are among 

 the mo!?t delicious known, rather smaller than the almond, but more delicate in 

 flavor and a little oilier, somewhat resembling in texture and taste the pifion of the 

 Rockv Mountains. Unlike the pinon and almond, the pistache nut has a shell eas- 

 ily opened with the flngers, since it contains two thin valves, which split open and 

 become nearly separated as the fruit dries. 



"The sorts "having yellow kernels are most used in oriental countries as a nut to eat 

 from the hand, but the green sorts only are in demand for flavoring, since the public 

 has become accustomed to associating this color with pistaches used for this purpose. 



The pistache is a small tree, 15 to 30 feet high, belonging to the same family as the 

 sumac {Anacurdiaceae). The male and female flowers are l)orne on different trees, 

 and this necessitates securing both kinds of trees for an orchard, or, what is preferable, 

 that scions of the male sort be grafted on the female trees that Ijear tlie fruit. One 

 male tree is said to suffice to pollinate from Ave to ten female trees. The best method 



