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10598 to 10614 — Continued. 



10611. Triticum polonicum (?). Wheat. 

 Red Winter; unirrigated. 



10612. Andropogon sorghum (?). Sorghum. 

 Djugara. 



10613. Chaetochloa italica. Millet. 

 Kunach, or Kunak. 



10614. KoSTELETZKYA PENTACARPA. 



Kanaf. 



10615 to 10620. Persea gratissima. Avocado. 



From Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented by Mr. Donald Maclntyre, Moanalua 

 Gardens, Honolulu. Received April 22, 1904. 



10615. Large Purple. 



Flesh thick, of good, nut v y flavor, yellow, and fiberless; seed comparatively 

 small, about one-fourth of fruit; crop medium; pear-shaped; length and diam- 

 eter over standard (4 by 6 inches). (No. 1.) 



10616. Small Green. 



Flesh not thick and with no nutty flavor, but quite fiberless and rather 

 sweetish; fruit roundish, length in diameter about 4 h inches; late, heavy bearer, 

 constant cropper. (No. 4. ) 



10617. Large Green Round. 



Flavor good but not nutty; length ami diameter about 5J by 5 inches; crop 

 uncertain. (No. 3.) 



10618. Large Green. 



Best of all in flavor; flesh smooth, firm, and fiberless; seed small; decidedly 

 bottle-necked; length 7 inches, diameter about 4 inches; late cropper, but crop 

 fairly constant; ripening about middle of June; seed small. (No. 6.) 



10619. Small Green. 



A very early variety, not of best flavor, with fiberless fruit; seed large; not 

 decidedly pear-shaped; good grower and constant cropper; ripening about May 

 25; earliest variety in Honolulu. (No. 5.) 



10620. Large Green. 



Flavor decidedly nutty and good; flesh yellow, fiberless; length and diam- 

 eter of fruit about standard; crop light, ripening about the middle of June. 



(No. 2.) 



10621. Phleum pratense. Timothy. 



From Sodermanland, Sweden. Presented bv Prof. Jakob Eriksson, Experimen- 

 talfaltet Albano, Stockholm. Received April 20, 1904. 



"Sample of seed from crop of 1903 of Swedish timothy for the selection experiments 

 carried on by Mr. John W. Gilmore at the Cornell University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. ' ' ( Fairchild. ) 



10622. Arachis hypogaea. Peanut. 



From Japan. Presented by Prof. C. C. Georgeson, director of the Alaska Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Sitka, Alaska. Received April 18, 1904. 



10623. Convolvueus sp. Japanese morning-glory. 



From Japan. Presented by Prof. C. C. Georgeson, director of the Alaska Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Sitka, Alaska. Received April 18, 1904. 

 Seed of Japanese morning-glories, which are known as being the most beautiful 

 varieties in the world. 



