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unarmed palm, with a slender, straight stem and long 

 pinnate leaves, growing in protected situations and 

 where the rainfall is evenly distributed. It is one 

 of the most attractive and graceful palms that I have 

 seen and, from my experience with it at Lamao , it will 

 make a good plant for the conservatory and possibly a 

 good house palm." (Wester.) 



Jacaratia mexicana (Papayaceae) , 46696. Bonete. From 

 Yucatan. Presented by Dr. Mario Calvino, Director, 

 Estacion Experimentale Agronomica, Santiago de las 

 Vegas, Cuba. "Seeds of Bonete from Yucatan. It produces 

 edible fruits of a shape and taste much like Cariea papaya. 

 The Bonete plant lives longer than the Papaya. " (Calvino. ) 



"A remarkable tree belonging to the same family as 

 Cariea papaya, but growing to a much greater size. The 

 fruit, which is commonly called Bonete in tropical Mexico, 

 is of a peculiar shape : oblong, pentagonal , five-celled, 

 containing a milky pulp. They are somewhat sweet and 

 edible. They are in many places prepared with sugar 

 in the form of conserves. The leaves are compound and 

 digitate, composed of seven distinct acute lobes." 

 (Safford. ) 



Lilium columbianum (Liliaceae), 46660. Lily. From 

 Bellingham, Washington. Seeds collected by Dr. David 

 Griffiths, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. "A valuable 

 native lily of the North Pacific Coast region, growing 

 under very variable conditions from Northern Calif ornia 

 to far into Canada. Locally it is called Tiger lily, 

 but is a very different thing and can be readily 

 distinguished from that species by an entire lack of 

 stem bulblets . The species produces abundant seed which 

 germinate readily. This seed was collected near Bel- 

 lingham, Washington, in September, 1918." (Griffiths.) 



x Mains arnoldiana (Malaceae), 46698. Apple. From 

 Jamaica Plain, Mass. Seed collected at the Arnold 

 Arboretum by Dr. Walter Van Fleet, of the Bureau of 

 Plant Industry. "Vigorous and very fruitful. May be 

 useful as a stock for dwarfing commercial varieties of 

 apples and for variety breeding." (Van Fleet.) 



"Attention has been called to the hybrid Crabapple, 

 Malus eerifem. This plant is probably one of the parents 

 of another hybrid which sprang up spontaneously in the 

 Arboretum many years ago and has been called AT. arnoldiana. 

 The other parent is probably M. floribunda, itself believed 

 to be a hybrid which originated in China. If this view 



