DECEMBER, V.m, TO DECEMBER^ 1905. 



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12911 to 12917- (lonliniKHl. 



12912. Cau.ujana micuoi'iivi.i.a. 



12913. C'AKAliANA AKltOKESCKNS. 



12914. Salix pj). 



12915. Has A kugosa. 



12916. Salix sp. 



12917. Salix vimi.nalis kkg.xYis. 



Siberian pea tree. 



Niobe weeping willow. 



Pasture rose. 



Ural willow. 



12918. Beta vulgaris. Sugar beet. 



From Fort Collins, Colo. Received Ihru the Colorado Experiment Station, 

 February 14, 190.'). 



Kh'mwanzleheit . 



12919. Raphaxus sativus. Radish. 

 From Fairfield, Wash. Received thru Mr. E. H. Morrison, February 18, 1905. 



Crimson Giant Forcing. Grown from S. 1". 1. No. 9487. 



12920. Nicotiana tabacum. Tobacco. 



From Washin^tonboro, Lancaster County, Pa. Received thru IVIr. Frank C. 

 Wittmer, February 14, IWP). 



12921 to 12926. 



From Sfax, Tunis, North Africa. 

 17, 1905. 



12921. Olea ecropaea. 



Received thru Mr. T. H. Kearney, February 



Olive. 



'• The ChemkiU varietv, being probably the befet adapted of all olives to a 

 dry, hot climate, will be useful as a stock even if it does not succeed with us as 

 an oil variety. ' ' ( Kearney. ) 



12922. PisTACiA VERA. Pistache. 

 White-skinned variety. 



12923. Pistacia vera. 

 j Red-skinned variety. 



12924. Pistacia vera. 



Pistache. 



Pistache. 



]\Iale. 



"Through the kindness of Mr. Leonardi, British vice-consul, I was able to 

 visit a garden here (Sfax) belonging to two Italian Jews, where there are 16 

 pistache trees (one male). The gardeners told me there are three kinds of 

 pistaches here, all with green kernels, but one having a white, one a red, and 

 one a red-and-white streaked skin. The first is considered the best, and from 

 a tree of this kind, said to bear very heavily, was taken most of the graftmg 

 wood (12922). Grafting can be done successfully here up to the end of 

 February." {Kearney.) 



12925. PUNICA GRANATIM. 



Pomegranate. 



"Pomegranate cuttings taken from a single bush, said to be a very fine, 

 large, red-fruited one. Here it is propagated by cutting off the vigorous root 

 shoots where they are about a half inch thick and sticking them into the 

 ground so that the main stem is horizontal and is covered with earth, waile 

 the stiff, divergent branches stick up vertically. In this way a good-sized 

 bush, l)earing well, is obtained in two years." {Kearney.) 



12926. (Undetermined.) 



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