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Department last spring. It looks a little like the 

 live oak. You said that it made a good hedge or a 

 large shade tree. I smiled at such a combination of 

 qualities, but it is true. The plants all lived. I 

 cut to 6 inches and now they are 1 5| or 6 feet high - 

 perfect evergreen, though we have had sudden drops to 

 14 F. I wish I had 10,000 of them." F. T. Ramsey, 

 Austin, Texas. Feb. 8, 1917. Regarding this same 

 Chilean tree Mr. A. P. Borden, of Pierce , Texas , wrote 

 on July 23, 1917. "About twelve or thirteen years ago 

 Dr. Galloway sent me from Washington, quite a number 

 of shade and ornamental trees to try in this section. 

 About the only one that survived and did well is an 

 evergreen tree with a bushy top about twenty feet 

 high, making a very dense shade. It is a pretty tree." 



Mr. R. C. May of Miami, Florida, in letter of 

 April 5, 1917, reports: "To my surprise the candle- 

 nut (Aleurites moluccana ) , S. P. I. No. 40977, Duranta repens, 

 S. P. I. No. 39458, and the Myrciaria cauliflora (Jaboti- 

 caba), S. P. I. No. 36702, are living and growing well. 

 The candle-nut is quite hardy and as cold-resistant as 

 the sweet orange. The Jaboticaba is about as cold- 

 resistant as the lemon and the Duranta repens as the 

 lime. I make these comparisons supposing you to be 

 familiar with them. The temperature here was -about 

 24 F." 



Medieago orbicularis (10725). But t on clover. " Thi s le- 

 guminous crop which is proving valuable in California, 

 is the subject of Farmers' Bulletin No. 730. The orig- 

 inal seed was collected by Mr. T. H. Kearney of the 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, from pods which he found on 

 the stone pavement of the Temple of Aesculapius, at 

 Lambesa near Timgad, Algeria. This handful of pods 

 from a dry plant on the old temple floor has resulted 

 since 1902 in the introduction of a crop which is pre- 

 ferable as a pasture plant to the spotted and toothed 

 bur clovers, now used extensively, while it has prac- 

 tically the same value as these other bur clovers for 

 green-manuring purposes." (Fairchild.) 



Primus tomentosa (36111). A Chinese bush cherry. 

 These young cuttings of this number planted in 1914 

 have proved very hardy at Spring Camp, Idaho, and are 

 said to have made a wonderful growth. The plant blos- 

 somed this spring but the fruit was killed by an un- 

 usually late spring frost. 



