122 SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



6978 to 6995. 



(Numbers not utilized. ) 



6996. Triticum vulgare. Wheat. 



From Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station Farm, Stillwater, Okla. Re- 

 ceived July 26,1901. 



Weissenburg. Box containing a few heads of wheat grown from Xo. 5499 during 

 season 1900-1901. 



6997. Triticum vulgare. Wheat. 



From Oklahoma Agricultural Experiment Station Farm, Stillwater, Okla. 

 Received July 26, 1901. 



Weissenburg. Bag of wheat grown from No. 5499 during season 1900-1901. 



6998. Medicago sativa. Alfalfa. 



From Gizeh, near Cairo, Egypt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild, July 1, 

 1901. 



"A small package of dried plants of alfalfa with roots showing very few nodules. 

 These plants were grown from Argentine seed sent to Cairo by the Office of Seed and 

 Plant Introduction and Distribution, L T . S. Department of Agriculture, and planted 

 in the spring of 1901 . " ( Fairch ild. ) 



6999. Cicer arietinum. Chick-pea. 



From Gizeh, near Cairo, Egypt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild, July 1, 

 1901. 



Package of dried plants and roots for root tubercle germ. (See No. 6961. ) 



7000. Trifolium alexandrinum. Berseem. 



From Gizeh, near Cairo, Egypt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild, from 

 the agricultural society. Collected about May 1, 1901. 



"Roots of berseem dried in the shade. These roots came from a field which had 

 just been grazed over by cattle." (See No. 6961. ) (Fairchild.) 



7001. Phoenix dactylifera. Date. 



From Favum, Egypt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild (No. 617), July 1, 

 1901. 



Wahi. ' ' Twenty kilos of dried fruit of a variety of date which is said to have been 

 brought from Siwah, a small village in the oasis of Bahriyeh. It is to my taste the 

 sweetest drying date in Egypt — at least it is much sweeter than the Amri or any other 

 I have tasted. It has a very peculiar mealy flesh of golden to greenish yellow. The 

 skin is very thin and smooth and of a golden brown shade. Seed short, rather large, 

 and clinging to the meat rather firmly. The flesh is somewhat granulated with the 

 sugar. I can not be certain that this variety did really come from Siwah, but it cer- 

 tainly is a sort not commonly seen at this season in Cairo, and is superior in flavor to 

 that which is considered the best in Egypt. The word Wahi signifies merely oasis, 

 according to Mr. H. A. Rankin, of Fayum." (Fairchild.) 



7002. Phoenix dactylifera. Date. 



From Favum, Egypt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild (No. 618), July 

 1, 1901. 



"Dried dates of the common variety of the Province of Fayum. They are of fair 

 quality as a drying date, but are not equal to the ' Wahi' or 'Amri ' dates, the former 

 of which was for sale on the same market in Fayoum. It is probable that seedlings 

 from these seeds will be mixed, although in northern Egypt only one variety of male 

 plant is grown. " (Fa irchild. ) 



