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company. One of nine forage crops little known in this 

 country introduced for the work of the Office of Forage 

 Crop Investigations. Among the others are the serradella, 

 gorse or whin, yellow trefoil, various lupines, Scotch 

 broom and giant spurry. 



Passiflora ligularis Juss. (Passif loraceae . ) 39360. Seeds 

 of a granadilla from Bogota, Colombia. Presented by Dr. 

 Anclzar, secretary of the Colombian Legation, through Mr. 

 W. E. Safford. "An egg-shaped fruit with parchment-like 

 shell filled with an abundance of sweet juice and many 

 small seeds. Used in tropical America for making sherbets 

 and ices alone or with the addition of lemon juice or 

 spices. Of easy culture in all the warm localities, grow- 

 ing in the form of a vine from trellises and arbors, and 

 desirable not only for its fruit but its beautiful flow- 

 ers." (Safford.) 



Tibouchina stenocarpa ( DC . ) Cogn. (Melastomaceae . ) 39333. 

 Seeds from Lavras , Minas Geraes, Brazil. Presented by Mr. 

 Benjamin H. Hunnicutt, Director, Escola Agricola de Lavras . 

 "Seeds of a wild shrub, commonly called 'Quaresma' or 

 'Lent, 1 as it blooms at Lent. It has a beautiful purple 

 flower and the blooming season covers a number of months. 

 It grows well on the poorest, driest grounds we have and 

 blooms during the dry season. I think it has been culti- 

 vated in some gardens in Brazil, although I have never 

 seen it. Ornamental only." 



NOTES FROM CORRESPONDENTS ABROAD. 



China. Tientsin. Dr. Yamei Kin writes November 18 in 

 reply for information concerning peach blossoms, "I had 

 just sent off a letter with some seeds when yours with 

 photos of the peach flowers and Inquiries came to hand. 



"I will do as you request and take a special look at 

 the orchards of the vicinity when they come into bloom 

 this spring, but I thought it might interest you to know 

 the answers to my questions from the people of my staff 

 and country patients that happen to be on the premises. 



"Without saying anything about what your inquiries 

 were (whether the blossoms were typically large and clear 

 pure white, or small and creamy white) I merely took the 

 photos and asked them if they were like the peach flowers 

 that they were accustomed to see in their fruit orchards. 

 Unanimously without the slightest hesitation they pointed 

 to the photo with the intermediate and small flowers, and 

 generally designated voluntarily the middle branch (that 

 with small, relatively inconspicuous flowers) as being the 

 most like, and also remarked that the color was white as a 

 rule though pink ones were not unknown. A few people said 



