526 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 

 OFFICE OF FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT INTRODUCTION. 



NO. 73. 



BULLETIN OF FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS. 

 February 1 to 29, 1912. 

 NEW PLANT IMMIGRANTS. 



(NOTE: Application for material listed in this bulletin 

 may be made at any time to this Office. As they are received 

 they are filed, and when the material is ready for the use of 

 experimenters it is sent to those on the list of applicants 

 who can show that they are prepared to care for it, as well 

 as to others selected because of their special fitness to 

 experiment with the particular plants imported. 



One of the main objects of the Office of Foreign Seed 

 and Plant Introduction is to secure material for plant 

 experimenters, and it will undertake as far as possible to 

 fill any specific requests for foreign seeds or plants from 

 plant breeders and others interested.) 



GENERA REPRESENTED IN THIS NUMBER. 



PLATE: Prunus avium. Russian cherry. 



