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Explorers and Foreign Correspondents relative to 

 important introduced plants which have recently 

 the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of Agriculture, 

 together with accounts of the behavior 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 



Aesculus 



Andropogon 



Apluda 



Cariniana 



Cenchrus 



Chionachne 



Chloris 



Chrysopogon 



Crataegus 



Eragrostis 



Escallonia 



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Iseilema 



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Juglans 



Linum 



Passlf lora 



Plnus 



Plratlnera 



Prunus 



Sesban 



Solanum 



Styrax 



Thelepogon 



Tricholaena 



Vlrola 



Vitis 



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The Tangsi cherry, Prunus pseudocerasus . 



Plant of Garbanzo, Cicer arietinum. 



Chinese wet-land ginger, Zinziber officinale. 



A grove of the Tamopan Persimmon, Diospyros kaki. 



Applications for material listed in these multigraphed 

 sheets may be made at any time to this Office. As they 



are received they 

 al is ready for 

 those on the list 

 prepared to care 

 because of their 

 particular plants 



are placed on file, and when the materi- 

 the use of experimenters it Is sent to 

 of applicants who can show that they are 

 for it as well as to others selected 

 special fitness to experiment with the 

 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. 



