582 



UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 



BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 

 OFFICE OF FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT INTRODUCTION. 



NO. 79. 



BULLETIN OF FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS. 



July 16 to August 15, 1912. 



NEW PLANT IMMIGRANTS. 



(NOTE: Applications 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 experiment- 

 ers, and it will undertake as far as possible to fill any spe- 

 cific requests for foreign seeds or plants from plant breeders 

 and others interested.) 



GENERA REPRESENTED IN THIS NUMBER. 



Amygdalus 



Ananas 



Antidesma 



Asparagus 



Baphia 



Beta 



Boscia 



Capparis 



Carissa 



Clavija 



Dovyalis 



34131 

 34124 

 34163 

 34133 

 34164 

 34252 

 34177 

 34165 

 34153 

 34122 

 34250 



Eriobotrya 



Gardenia 



Gossypium 



Grewia 



Hyphaene 



Juglans 



Juniperus 



Kraussia 



Maba 



Mangif era 



34119 



34167 



34184-194 



34181 



34219 



34254 



34140-145 



34169 



34170 



34199-205 



Medicago 



Omphalea 



Oryza 



Persea 



Phoenix 



Prunus 



Scheff lera 



Strychnos 



Triticum 



Turraea 



34147-51 



34156 



34220-49 



34157 



34213 



34134 



34123 



34161 



34126 



34179 



PLATE: Castanea sp. Chinese chestnut. 



