30 SEEDS \M' plan I s i \i POB i i D, 



25959 to 25962. Zi \ mays I. Corn. 



From Central Soledad, Cienfuegoe, Cuba. Presented by Mr Robert M. Grey, 

 Harvard Botanical Experiment Station. Received September 21, L909. 

 ■i the following; notes bj Mr. Grej . 



25959. Harvard selected flint. This is our suresl cropper, bes( keeper, and, 

 being free from surface starch, less Bubjecl to attack from weevils and ants, 



25960. Selected whitt flint Cuban. This is used as a Bweet or table corn, is 

 early, and a small-cob variety. 



25961. Hybrid purph cob (Cuban dent ■ Cuban flint). 



25962. Cuban dent. 



These two las! are the varieties commonly cultivated lure and arc very 

 productive. 

 The al">\ «■ h.i\ e been under selection for six j ears. The lm-k of all closes tighl at 

 the apt prevention and safeguard against insei 



25963. \i«i\ i .mi \ I.. Horse bean. 

 Prom ented by The Plant Culture Experiment 



Station, requested from Prof. A. Cserhati. Received September 22, L909. 

 "Thi re planted in the spring and mature in about one hundred days. 



The plants grow b • entimeters high. The beans are ground up and make 



aver) autriti rhe fodder is of hardly anj value." (Gydrfda.) 



25964. < rOSSl PH M HIR81 mm L. 

 Prom Nyasaland Pi British 



J Stewart J. McCall, Dire< tor of Agri< 

 27, . 

 Seed of Upland cotton which received the firel prize at therecenl Bhow at Blant) re! 

 I think you will consider it a \ erj high-class hirsul um cotton, ami ii i- very gratifying 

 as we received 8d. t" 7d. per pound for ii at the Manchester markel ." I Met 'nil . \ 



25965. Yn.w rjNGUicuiATA L. Walp. Cowpea. 

 Prom iih Africa. Presented by Prof. .1. Burtl Davy, 



eminent agrostologisl and botanist, Transvaal Department of Agriculture. 

 Received September L0, L909. 

 "Kafir bean." This lot apparently contains several different varieties. 



26047. <.ai:<ima mangostana J.. Mangosteen. 



Prom Port of Spain, Trinidad, British Wesl [ndies. Presented by Mr. F. Evans, 

 botanical department, Department of Agriculture. Received tall of 1909. 

 for description. 



''The mangosteen will be an unusually good shipper, a- tropical fruits go. The 

 small -rati- of fruit- from which these seeds were taken, Bhipped by Mr. Evans on the 

 28th of September, was delayed for more than a week in New York and reached 

 Washington on the 19th of October. Even after holding these fruits for five days after 

 arrival in Washington — i. e., twenty-six days from the time they were picked — they 

 were still in an edible condition, although naturally they had lost a good deal of their 

 delicacy and the pulp had begun to adhere to the thick rind. One remarkable feature 

 about these fruits lies in the fact that as they decay the rind hardens until it becomes 

 almost as hard as a rock. I believe it may not be necessary to crate these in shipment 

 on this account. A single rotten fruit may not infect others, as in the case of mangos 

 or other soft-skinned fruits; in fact, as tropical fruits go, it seems to be an ideal 

 shipper.'' {David Fair child.) 

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Cotton. 



Central 



lltllle, 



Africt 

 Zomba. 



Pn ented bj Mr. 

 Receh ed September 



