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HONDURAS. Puerto Cortes. Mr. Claude I. Dawson, American 



consul, August 15, in sending in a quantity of the "guano pain." , 



pro Ochroma lagopus , for test as to the value of its sawdust 



as a light-weight packing material for fruit instead of redwood 



t, calls attention to the fact that "there are two grades 



, the first and second growth, the first being hard 



:.e-grained, and therefore less suitable for making life- 



rafts, belts, etc., for which it is at present mostly used. 



seconi growth is easier to market, but owing to small size - 



seldom over six or eight inches in diameter - proves unprofit- 



e unless contracted for in large quantities or shipped under 



ireasurement . This measure is preferable, an-1 with 



for 500,000 feet in hand, it could be delivered at the 



rivers at $10.00 U. S. per thousand. The stumpage of the 



re is estimated at several million feet." 



PALESTINE. Haifa. Mr. A. Aaronsohn, Director of the Jewish 



Itural Experiment Station, writes July 30, that he has Just 



returned fr::: a four weeks trip to Damascus, Aft. Hermon and 



Mt . Lebanon. e collected seeds and young plants of the cedars 



number of seeds of various forms of Amygdalus 

 orientalis and various Prunus species, which he has recommended 



str: dryland stocks 

 which he will send us later 



for cultivated Prunus varieties and 



FE: Please note that 

 INOCAF. :S should be No. 

 No . c 1 351 . 



in Bulletin 

 31374 and 



54, this series, 

 VITIS VINIFERA, 



S. P. I. NOS. INCLUDED IN THIS BULLETIN 



?7, 31479-480, 31488, 31483, 31484, 31488, 31511-536, 31537- 



,31557, 31558, 31560, 31561-562, 31572-573, 31574-576, 31606- 



, 3 09-612, 31614, 31615, 31616, 31617, 31620-630, 31631, 



.- -, 31654, 31639, 31642, 31654-676, 31683, 31687, 31688, 



- . . 31692-695, 31710-712, 3172c . 



Issued October 14, 1911. 



