48 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



17694. AvENA SATIVA. ■ Oat. 



From Manhattan, Kans. Received through the Agricultural Experiment 

 Station, February 20, 1906. 



Sixtij-Day. 



17695. Andropogon sorghum. Sorghum. 



From Waterville, Minn. Received through Mr. Seth H. Kenney, February 20, 

 1906. 



Minnesota Early Amber Cane. 



17696. Phaseolus radiatus. Mung bean. 



From San Jose, Cal. Received through the Braslan Seed Growers Company, 

 February 23, 1906. 



17697- ViGNA UNGUicuLATA. Co-wpea. 



From Richmond, Va. Received through T. W. Wood & Sons, February 23,1906. 

 Iron. 



17698. Medioago sativa. Alfalfa. 



From Chinook, Mont. Received through Mr. Thomas O'Hanlon, February 21, 

 1906. 



17699. Agropyron occidentale. Western -wheat-grass. 



From Harlem, Mont. Received through Mr. Thomas M. Everett, February 21, 

 1906. 



17700 and 17701. Avena sativa. Oat. 



From Richmond, Va. Received through T. W. Wood & Sons, February 23, 1906. 

 17700. Appier Rustproof. 17701. Burt. 



17702. Andropogon sorghum. Sorghum. 



From Richmond, Va. Received through T. W. Wood & Sons, February 23, 1906. 

 Early Amber Cane. 



17703. Xanthosoma sagittifolium. Yautia. 



From Port au Paix, Haiti. Received through Mr. George W. Guiding, February 

 23, 1906. 



17704 to 17707. Diospyros kaki. Japanese persimmon. 



From Taiku, Korea. Received through Prof. J. G. Jack, of the Arnold Arbore- 

 tum, Jamaica Plains, Mass., February 26, 1906. 



Cuttings of four varieties of seedless Japanese persimmons. 



17708. Mussaenda frondosa. 



From Manila, P. I. Received through Mr. W. S. Lyon, of the Bureau of Agri- 

 culture, February 26, 1906. 



"A yellow-flowered, ornamental shrub; flowers subtended by single, large, milk- 

 white calycine leaf; very showy." {Lyon.) 



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