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Descriptive notes furnished mainly by Agricultural 

 Explorers and Foreign Correspondents relative W v fhe more-~ Fc: 

 important introduced plants which have recently arrived at 

 the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture, 

 together with accounts of the behaviour in America of pre- 

 vious introductions. Descriptions appearing here are re- 

 vised and published later in the Inventory of Plants Im- 

 ported . 



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Genera Represented in This Number 



Amygdalus 



Annona 



Blighia 



Castanea 



Chayota 



Citrus 



Diospyros 



Escallonia 



Fraxinus 



Homoioceltis 



Juglans 



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929, 934 

 . 929 



934 



929 



929 



. 930 



930, 931 

 931 

 934 

 932 

 932 



Licania 



Lucuma 



Macadamia 



Osteomeles 



Populus 



Primula 



Prunus 



Pyrus 



Tamarix 



Ulmus 



Ziziphus 



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 932 

 932 

 935 

 933 

 935 

 934 

 934 

 935 

 934 

 935 

 935 



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A Chinese Catalpa (Catalpa bungei.) 



A Manchurian Crabapple (Malus baccata mandschurica . ) 



Tung Oil tree (Aleurites fordii.) 



A field of Sesame in China (Sesamum orientale.) 



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 annual 

 List of New Plant Introductions. 



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. 



