944 



March 1911 has become a beautiful tree and last year bore 

 about '25 nuts, - this year it has a very good crop. Would 

 you like to have me send you some nuts by mail?" 



We offered to buy the entire crop and she sent us one 

 pound, about one fourth of it, saying 



"I am sorry there are not more, but we have been eat- 

 ing them and giving them away. Please do not offer to pay 

 for them. I am only too glad to send them and hope I can 

 let you have more next year, if you wish them." 



To the pound of seed received from Mrs. Bow, the S. 

 P. I.- No. 41472 was assigned (see page 941.) For photo- 

 graphs see Label Catalog for 1915-1916, and Plant Im- 

 migrants, No. 78.) 



Prunus sp. (31652) The Methley plum from Natal, which 

 has attracted attention there because of its earliness and 

 good quality is thought to be a cross between the Satsuma 

 and the myrobalan. Mr. DeVoe, of Tacoma, Washington, re- 

 ports that a plant sent him February 6, 1913, has grown 

 vigorously. It flowered in 1914 and in 1915 attained a 

 height of six feet, and spread of four feet, and produced 

 a peck of "excellent fruit." 



Mr. T. W. McCormack, of Denton, Texas, also states in 

 a letter dated November 29, 1915, regarding this number, 

 that a plant received by him in February of last year, has 

 proved very thrifty, and made fine growth, producing 

 branches over five feet long during the year. 



Reports sent from DeLeon, Texas, Vacaville and San 

 Diego, California, are likewise favorable. 



The vigorous growth of these young trees in places of 

 such widely different climatic conditions, justifies the 

 recommendation of a thorough trial for this plum through- 

 out the United States. 



Salix sp. (22450) A Chinese willow from Pau ting fu, 

 which grows everywhere on the dry lands of North China, 

 made- at Fallen, Nevada, a growth of ten feet the first 

 year. Mr. Headley, in charge of the reclamation work, at 

 Fallon, has already distributed a large number of cuttings 

 to settlers on the Project. 



Zea mays (9573) Early Malcolm corn. A selection of 

 the Malakoff corn which was introduced by Professor N. E. 

 Hansen, from Russia in 1902, is the only variety which 

 matures regularly in Ottawa, according to information given 

 to Mr. Fairchild last summer. A very sweet variety has 

 been produced by crossing this Early Malcolm with the 

 squaw corn, a low growing variety originated by the Indians 

 of the western plains. A cross between the Early Malcolm 

 and a variety known as the Early Adams, has, in its second 

 filial generation, ripened ten days earlier than either 

 parent . 



