1505 



through Mr. Joseph W. Pincus. Introduced for variety 

 tests being cajrried on by Department specialists. 



The following table shows results of experimental 

 tests with this variety: 



per cent beets sugar (Ibs.) 



of per per 

 sugar. acre. acre. 



In Bohemia 



19.37 



35543 



6885 



In Zeeland, 

 Holland 



16.93 



39677 



6717 



Elacis guinfensis (Phoenicaceae) , 48001 to 48010. 

 Oil p=xlm. From Buitenzorg, Java. Seeds presented by 

 Dr. P. J. S. Cramer, chief, Plant Breeding Station. 

 "I ammailing seeds of E. guineensis, which were collected 

 from trees grown in our garden at Sumatra." (Cramer.) 



This palm is very important economically. The 

 fruit is used by the natives for food; the leafstalks 

 and leaves for thatching houses; and the fleshy outer 

 layer and kernels of the fruit each yield a commercial 

 oil,- that from the fleshy part being the ordinary 

 palm-oil used in the manufacture of soap and candles, 

 and that from the kernels being the white or nut-oil 

 used for making margarine or artificial butter. (A- 

 dapted from MacMillan, Handbook of Tropical Gardening 

 and Planting, p. 538.) 



See Plate No. 241, Plant Immigrants, No. 159, 

 July, 1919 . 



Juglans cathayensis ( Juglandaceae ) , 48014. From 

 Rochester, N. Y. Seeds presented by Mr. John Dunbar, 

 assistant superintendent of parks. "This Juglans is 

 said to grow 70 feet tall, but it does not show any 

 tendency to be arborescent here. Our plants, which 

 were received from the Arnold Arboretum in 1911, are 

 about 10 years old, 8 feet tall, and bushy in habit. 

 They began bearing two years since. The nuts germi- 

 nate readily." (Dunbar.) 



Mimusopz kauki (Sapotaceae) , 48011. From Buiten- 

 zorg, Java. Seeds presented by Dr. P. J. S. Cramer, 

 chief, Plant Breeding Station. Seeds f^om big fruits. 

 Tne taste resembles very much that of .-.ehra: ':a-:ota, but 

 the fruit is not eaten very often by Europeans. It is 

 a tree that likes to grow near the sea." (Cramer.) 



