DECEMBER, 1903, TO DECEMBER, I'JOo, 31 



10598 to 10614— Continued. 



10611. Tkiticl'm I'OLoxicixi (?). Wheat. 

 Red Winter; imirrigated. 



10612. ANDKoi'iKiox soRcirrM (?). Sorg-hum. 

 I)jii(/<ira. 



10613. CiiAETociiLi.A iTALUA. Millet. 

 Kunach, or Kumd: 



10614. KOSTELETZKYA I'HXTACAHPA. 



Kannf. 



10615 to 10620. Peusea (iUATissiMA. Avocado. 



From Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented by Mr. Donald Marlntyre, .Moanalua 

 Gardens, Honolulu. Received April 2J, 1H()4. 



10615. Liirge Purple. 



Flesh thick, of good, nut y flavor, yellow, and fiherle.-'H; seed coniiiaratiyely 

 small, about one-fourth of fruit; cro]> medium; pear-shaped; length and diam- 

 eter over standard (4 by 6 inches). (No. 1.) 



10616. Small Green. 



Flesh not thick and with no nutty flavcjr, but (|uite (ibcrU-Hs and rather 

 sweetish; fruit roundish, length in diameter about 4-1 nu-lie.<; late, iieavy liearer, 

 constant cropper. (No. 4.) 



10617. Ldrije Green Round. 



Flavor good but not nutty; length and diameter about o.l liy ■•> inches; crop 

 uncertain. (No. 3.) 



10618. Large Green. 



Best of all in flavor; flesh smooth, firm, and flberless; seed small; decidedly 

 bottle-necked; length 7 inches, diameter about 4 inches; late cropper, but crop 

 fairly constant; ripening about middle of June; seed small. ( No. G. ) 



10619. Small Green. 



A very early variety, not of best flavor, with flberless fruit; see<l large; not 

 decidedly pear-shaped; good grower and constant crojiper; ripening about May 

 25; earliest variety in Honolulu. (No. 5.) 



10620. Large Green. 



Flavor decidedly nutty and good; flesh yellow, flberless; length and diam- 

 eter of fruit about' standard; crop light, ripening about the middle of June. 

 (No. 2.) 



10621. Phleum pratense. Timothy. 



From iSodermanland, Sweden. Presented by Prof. Jakob Eriksson, Experimen- 

 talfiiltet Albano, Stockholm. Received April 20, 1904. 



"Sample of seed from crop of 1903 of Swedish timothy for the selection experiments 

 carried on by Mr. John W. Gilmore at the Cornell University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. ' ' ( Fairchild. ) 



10622. Arachis hypogaea. Peanut. 



From Japan. Presented by Prof. C. C. Georgeson, director of the Alaska Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Sitka, Alaska. Received April 18, 1904. 



10623. CoNVOLYULUS sp. Japanese morning-glory. 



From Japan. Presented by Prof. C. C. Georgeson, director of the Alaska Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Sitka, Alaska. Received April 18, 1904. 

 Seed of Japanese morning-glories, which are known as being the most beautiful 

 varieties in the world. 



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