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plants, which were rather spreading and low, being wider 

 than high. The plant looked well; the leaves were large 

 and healthy, of good color, and seemed to be in excellent 

 health. " 



For photographs of Litchi see Label Catalogue for 

 1915-1916 and Plant Immigrants Nos. Ill & 112. 



Lonicera maackii (391. ) A honeysuckle brought from Russia 

 by Hansen in 1898. A cutting from original plants of this 

 number, planted by Mr. Bisset in 1912, bloomed the follow- 

 ing year and has bloomed each succeeding year, and now 

 forms a beautiful, rapid-growing shrub with spreading 

 branches and deep green leaves on the axils of which are 

 borne the clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers which are 

 white on first opening but rapidly turn yellow. This is 

 certainly a precocious flowering species. 



For photographs see Plant Immigrants No. 74 and the 

 Label Catalogue for 1915-1916. 



Rheum rlwuponticum (20420.) A species of rhubarb in- 

 troduced by Mr. Meyer from the Agricultural Station of 

 Khabarovsk, Siberia, in 1907. We have just received an in- 

 teresting letter from Mr. A. Merritt, Hollis, L. I., re- 

 garding this number, a portion of which is quoted below: 



"A little over three years ago I asked for and had 

 sent to me a root of Siberian rhubarb. This turned out to 

 be a most delicious plant of a taste much more delicate 

 than any other rhubarb I have ever eaten or been able to 

 secure. Another unusual feature of it was that it is al- 

 most 'sweet' enough to eat without the addition of sugar. 

 We use only about one-sixth as much sugar to sweeten it as 

 the ordinary rhubarb calls for under the same circumstances. 



"The plant does not seem to spread, however, as does 

 the ordinary rhubarb, . and I have been afraid to make any 

 experiments for fear of losing the one plant that I have 

 and I am wondering whether you could tell me how to prop- 

 agate from this plant and whether you could send me another 

 root of this same rhubarb." 



