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Descriptive notes furnished mainly by Agricultural 

 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. 



Annona 

 Citrus 



Diospyros 



Erythea 



Ficus 



Ipomoea 



39808-816 



39699 



39712 



39689 



39719 



39740 



39828 



39729-735 



39741-742 



39799-802 



Ipomoea 



Malus 



Marsdenia 



Pittosporum 



Prunus 



Quercus 

 Tamarix 

 Zea 



39831-833 



39829 



39685 



39728 



39743-798 



39820-826 



39723 



39692 



39803-807 



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Hedge of the Pitanga or Surinam cherry in Bahia, Brazil. 

 An old Chinese elm in the Lama Temple Yard, Pekln. 

 An old Mango tree at Alta da Santo Antonio, Itaparica, Brazil. 

 The White Barked Pine of China. 



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 undertae as far as possible to 

 fill any specific requests for foreign seeds or plants 

 from plant breeders and others interested. 



