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growing tree. Fruit used in the green state for preserves, not used for 

 table-oil. 



15. Var. Verdcjo.—V erdial, (French, Verdal; Verdan.)— Fruit black- 

 violet, oblique-spheric, pointed, about one inch long. Furnishes good 

 oil and resists best of all the cold, 



Spanish varieties of late maturation, for warmer localities, 



16. Var. maxima.— 'MadrilQiiOy Olivo morcal.— Fruit over an inch long, 

 cordate-globose, strongly pointed. Valuable for preserves. 



17. Var. Bostrata.—StTong and tall plant, very hardy. Fruit black- 

 reddish, over an inch long, oval, much pointed. Good for oik 



18. Var. Ceratocarpa. — (French, Odor ant; Luquoise.) — Fruit* fully an 

 inch long, oval, pointed. 



19. Var. Javalimo. — Fruit black-gray, over an inch long, egg-shaped, 

 somewhat oblique, gradually pointed. Eich in good oil. 



20. Var. Picudo. — Fetudilla. — Fruit fully an inch long, egg-shaped, 

 blunt at the base, pointed at the apex, with black-gray pulp* Good 

 both for oil and preserves. 



21. Var. Nevadillo negro. — Fruit egg-shaped, fully an inch long, with 

 turned pointed apex. One of the richest of all varieties in yield, and 

 ripens moderately early, 



French varieties merging into the Spanish Tcinds. 



22. Var. Angidosa. — Lauriue. — For preserves. 



23. Var. Jiovget. — Marvailletto. — Produces a fine oil. 



24. Var. Atrornhens. — Salierue. Saverne. — Fruit dusted white. Fur- 

 nishes one of the best of oils. 



25. Var. Varicgata. — Marbee. Pigale. Pigau. — Purple fruit, with 

 white spots. 



20. Var. Le Falma. — Oil very sweet, sparingly produced. 



27. Var. Airovircns. — Pointue. Punchuda. — Fruit large, with good 

 oil. 



28. Var. RuMcans. — Rougette. — Seed small, yield annual and large. 



29. Var. Alba. — Olive blanche, Blancane. Vierge. — Productive,, but 

 inferior. 



30. Var. Caillet Rogue, — Figauier. — Tree small. Fruit large, red. Oil 

 good and produced in quantity. 



31. Var. Caillet Blanche. — Fruit almost white, produced annually and 

 copiously, yielding a superior oil. 



32. Var. Raymet. — Fruit large, reddish. Oil coi)ious and fine. This 

 variety prefers a Hat country. 



33. Var. Cotignac. — Fruit middle-sized, blunt. Oil obtained in con- 

 siderable quantity, and of excellent quality. 



34. — Var. BerniiUaon. — Vermilion. — Yields good table-oil. Tree very 

 hardy. 



JAPAN PERSIMMONS. 



During the past twelve years the Department has made various im- 

 portations of seeds of the persimmon from Japan, but only in a few 

 cases have they reached here in condition to vegetate. AVhen young 

 the plants sulier to some extent during Avinter; the points of the 

 branches are injured, but they recover as summer adv.inces, and after 

 the second winter they are pei^fectly hardy. There is also quite a 

 difference in the scedling-plauts, some few remain uninjured from the 



