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COLLEGE FA ACniCULTUii 



Descriptive notes furnished mainly by &i&K9iMiW8Pc 

 Explorers and Foreign Correspondents relative to the more 

 important introduced plants which have arrived during the 

 month at the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agri- 

 culture. These descriptions are revised and published 

 later in the Inventory of Plants Imported. 



Genera Represented in This Number. 



Adenantbera 



Arapelopsis 



Annona 



Anthocephalus 



Berberis 



Boehmeria 



Citrus 



Holcus 

 Hyper i cum 



39542 

 39569 

 39567 

 39637 

 39574 

 39638 

 39579 

 39581 

 39594 

 39644 



Laurocerasus 



Mangif era 



Myricaria 



Phaseolus 



Phlogacanthus 



Pyrus 



Rand i a 

 Spondias 



39584 



39485 



39630 



39589 



39653 



39538-541 



39547-548 



39655 



39563 



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Diospyros kaki. Tree grafted on D. lotus. Dried 

 Annona squamosa. Sugar-apples in a basket. 

 Catinga lands of interior Brazil. 



persimmons 



Applications for material listed in these multigraphed 

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

 are received they are placed on file, and when the materi- 

 al 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. Do not wait for the Autumn 

 Catalogue. 



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. 



