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of the Surprise trees on his grounds, though they are 

 growing in a pear orchard in which numerous suscepti- 

 ble varieties have died out entirely from blight, and 

 other varieties have blighted more or less every 

 year." (B. T. Galloway.) 



Rubus sp. (Rosaceae), 45891. Blackberry. From 

 Colombia. Presented _ by Mr. Hermano Apolinar-Maria , 

 Institute de la Salle, Bogota, at the request of Mr. F. 

 M. Chapman, Washington, D. C. In April, 1913, while on 

 a visit to Colombia, I found this variety growing in a 

 little posada called El Pinon in the temperate zone 

 at an elevation of 9,600 feet on the trail from Bogota 

 to Fusagasuga. El Pinon is exceedingly wet and this 

 giant blackberry may be found only under the conditions 

 which prevail there. It is not the El Moral de Castile, 

 a cylindrical berry which grows in profusion at from 

 5,000 to 7,500 feet, but a much larger, rounder berry 

 shaped more like a strawberry. These berries are often 

 3 inches in length." (Chapman.) 



Solandra longiflora (Solanaceae) , 45953. From Syd- 

 ney, New South Wales, Australia. Presented by Mr. J. 

 H. Maiden, Director, Botanic Garden. A West Indian 

 evergreen shrubby vine, with ovate to obovate sharply 

 pointed leaves on purplish petioles and yellow, fra- 

 grant flowers usually a foot long. If left untrimmed 

 it is a rampant climber but can be grown as a dwarf 

 shrub by constant pruning. It is an adaptive plant as 

 it grows well in the driest and poorest places but 

 does not appear to object to gross feeding. The foli- 

 age of this plant produces a valuable drug called 

 solandrine which has the same active principles as at- 

 ropine derived from the leaves and roots of Atropa bel- 

 ladonna. The best method of propagation is by cuttings 

 which should be taken from the flowering branches just 

 after the flowering season is over and planted in a 

 well-drained light sandy soil. (Adapted from the Agri- 

 cultural Gazette of New South Wales, vol. 28, p. 670.) 



Stizolobium niveum (Fabaceae), 45940. Dedman's bean. 



From Salisbury, Rhodesia, Africa. Presented by the Di- 

 rector of Agriculture. One of the principle advantages 

 that this bean has over the Florida velvet bean is the 

 absence of the fine prickly hairs on the stem and 

 leaves which makes the curing of that plant for hay a 

 difficult operation. It also seems to be more resist- 

 ant to frost. For these reasons Dedman's bean, or as it 



