have in some cases been asked to state the facilities and experience 

 which will justify their demands. In all cases, but particularly where 

 a correspondent receives more than one lot of seed of the same kind, 

 it is requested that our numbers be recorded for use in connection with 

 the reports. Our blanks will bear numbers corresponding to those of 

 the inventory list, so that identification will be easy and permanently 

 accessible if the numbers are preserved. Otherwise the reports will 

 have little value and our correspondents will not be able to learn the 

 results secured in other parts of the country with the seeds with which 

 they have experimented. 



The number of plants or packages of seed available at the time this 

 list is printed is stated in parenthesis with each item. Where no such 

 note appears it is to be assumed that our stock is exhausted. 



O. F. Cook, 

 Special Agent in Charge of Seed and Plant Introduction. 



Washington, D. C, July 5, 1899. 



