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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. 



Abies 



Acer 



Amygdalus 



Betula 



Castanopsis 



Citrus 



Corylus 

 Daphne 

 Deringa 

 Diospyros 



39860 



39983-987 



39988 



39898 



39989-991 



39909 



39875 



39897 



39907 



39914 



39869 



39912-913 



Euonymus 

 Hicksbeachia 

 Malus 

 Prunus 



Ribes 



Salix 



Tamarix 



Viburnum 



39903 



39871 



39923 



39899 



39902 



39911 



39918 



39910 



39916 



39921-922 



39856 



39998 



Eilft 







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Amygdalus tangutica. A Chinese Wild Almond. 



Citrus sp. from Kansu, China. 



Pnuius persica potanini. Potanin's Chinese wild peach. 



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. 



