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have tried here ever held, their leaves until fall, 

 while this one looks beautiful and I believe will be 

 a success here. The Amygdalus persiea nectarina, Quetta nec- 

 tarines have done well, leaves are free from fungus. 

 Primus domestica ( Papagone prune (40498) has done well, 

 leaves are free from fungus." V. L. Deane , Seabrook, 

 Texas, September 12, 1918. 



In a letter dated March 18, 1918, Mrs. J. Radford 

 Carter, of Merritt, Florida, reports the following 

 results with Persea americana: 



"We had an unusually cold February this year and 

 during the severe cold, we kept our young avocado 

 plants banked in sand; the old trees went through all 

 right, excepting a few frosted lower limbs. Lower 

 limbs of the mango were frosted also, but there will 

 be plenty of fruit this summer." 



Excerpts from a letter under date of April 7th, 1916, 

 from John Bracken, Prof, of Field Husbandry, Univer- 

 sity of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 



"Your communication of the 29th ult., enclosing 

 photograph of one of our plats of Medicago sativa , semi- 

 Palatinsk alfalfa is to hand. This plat did particularly 

 well last year. It yielded more than any of our other 

 alfalfa, but, of course, the latter were produced 

 under rather different conditions. The semi-Palatinsk 

 you photographed yielded 10,562 Ibs . green weight in 

 the first cutting; 5,520 in the second, and 4,875 in 

 the third. The dry matter in the first cutting was 

 27.22$ of which 21.77$ was protein. A species of grass 

 that we secured through your Bureau that has done 

 very" well here is Agropyron elongatum." 



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