A Collection of Nuts and Dried Fruits Presented 

 by the Ameer of Afghanistan. 



His Majesty, Habibullah Khan, sent the above collec- 

 tion through his special representative, Mr. A. C. Jewett, 

 who brought it as baggage and delivered it in person to 

 the Department. For each sample he had prepared special 

 lithographed labels, giving the correct name of the fruit 

 and the locality from which it came. As the winters in 

 Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, are bleak, cold and 

 dry, the fruits grown there should prove hardy in our 

 Middle States. Among the most interesting of the collec- 

 tion are the excellent apricots, raisins, Elaeagnus fruits, 

 and dried white mulberries. The latter form almost the 

 exclusive food of hundreds of thousands of Afghans for 



the year. This use of dried mulberries 

 tree food crop. Analyses of these dried 

 their high food values. 



many months of 

 suggests a new 

 mulberries show 



