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EXPLANATORY NOTE. 



This multigraphed circular is made up of descrip- 

 tive notes furnished mainly by Agricultural Explorers 

 and Foreign Correspondents relative to the more im- 

 portant introduced plants which have recently arrived 

 at the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of 

 Agriculture, together with accounts of the behavior 

 in America of previous introductions. Descriptions 

 appearing here are revised and published later in the 

 INVENTORY OF PLANTS IMPORTED. 



Applications for material listed in these pages 

 may be made at any time to this Office. As they are 

 received they are placed on file, and when the mate- 

 rial is ready for the use of experimenters it is 

 sent to those on the list of applicants who can show 

 that they are prepared to care for it as well as to 

 others selected because of their special fitness to 

 experiment with the particular plants imported. Do 

 not wait for the annual catalogue entitled NEW PLANT 

 INTRODUCTIONS which will be sent you in the autumn 

 and in which will be listed all plants available at 

 that time. Regular requests checked off on the check 

 list sent out with the catalogue are not kept over 

 from year to year. If you are especially interested 

 in some particular plant in the catalogue write and 

 explain in detail your fitness to handle it. 



One of the main objects of the Office of Foreign 

 Seed and Plant Introduction is to secure material for 

 plant experimenters, and it will undertake as far as 

 possible to fill any specific requests for foreign 

 seeds or plants from plant breeders and others inter- 

 ested . 



David Fairchild, 



Agricultural Explorer in Charge. 

 May 17, 1919. 



Anyone desiring to republigh any portion 

 of this circular should obtain permission by 

 applying to this Office. 



