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whom It was named. Caragana arborescens has become almost 

 a necessary hedge and shelter-belt plant on the Cana- 

 dian Great Plains, and it is coming to a better ap- 

 preciated in our own Northwest. A beautiful, strik- 

 ing, prostrate form (No. 41480) to which Mr. Norman 

 M. Ross, of Indian Head, directed attention last year, 

 and which he has since sent us, can scarcely fail to 

 be of value for dooryard planting in the coldest por- 

 tions of our country. 



It always gives a feeling of satisfaction to re- 

 alize that a tree introduction has reached a stage 

 where it is producing a supply of seed in this coun- 

 try. The Queensland nuts (No. 41472) sent in from 

 Homestead, Fla. , by Mrs. L. L. Bow were produced by a 

 tree sent to her by this office in 1911. Its pro- 

 ductiveness and the quality of the nuts indicate that 

 this new nut tree, which furnishes a basis for a small 

 industry in Australia, is a promising one for Florida 

 at least. 



Collections of seven winter-wheat varieties (Nos. 

 41510 to 41516) from Baluchistan, presented by Mr. A. 

 Howard of the Indian Service , and of eighteen varieties 

 (Nos. 41342 to 41356 and 41682. to 41684) from Pusa, 

 India, should yield something valuable for the wheat 

 breeders. 



The hybrids between the American chinkapin and 

 the Japanese chestnut (Nos. 41357 to 41360), made by 

 Dr. Walter Van Fleet, bear nuts which in size and 

 sweetness should recommend them to the serious atten- 

 tion of nut growers. 



The Mascarene grass ( Osterdamia tenuifolia^ No. 41509.) 

 which has been used so extensively by the Japanese 

 for lawns , but which comes from the island of Guam, 

 has already shown its remarkable lawn-making charac- 

 ter in southern Florida, where lawns are most diffi- 

 cult to maintain. 



A species of Rubus (No. 41676) from Darjiling, 

 making a growth of 20 feet and said to be the most 

 robust of the genus, together with five other species 

 from the same section of the Himalayas, may have 

 special interest for breeders, even though they may 

 not do well generally. 



Those Americans who have tried in vain to grow 

 as a border plant the brilliant Calceolaria so common in 

 Great Britain may be glad to test as a substitute the 



To dress those trench wounds which can be cared for 



with 'First Aid Packets', a fifty dollar Liberty Bond 



would take care of 160 injuries. 



