﻿B. 
  P. 
  I.— 
  637. 
  

  

  SEEDS 
  AND 
  PLANTS 
  IMPORTED 
  DURING 
  THE 
  

   PERIOD 
  FROM 
  JANUARY 
  1 
  TO 
  MARCH 
  31, 
  1910: 
  

   INVENTORY 
  NO. 
  22; 
  NOS. 
  264T1 
  TO 
  27480. 
  

  

  INTRODUCTORY 
  STATEMENT. 
  

  

  This 
  inventory, 
  No. 
  22, 
  is 
  a 
  record 
  of 
  seed 
  and 
  plant 
  introduc- 
  

   tions 
  received 
  by 
  the 
  Office 
  of 
  Foreign 
  Seed 
  and 
  Plant 
  Introduction 
  

   of 
  the 
  Bureau 
  of 
  Plant 
  Industry 
  from 
  January 
  1 
  to 
  March 
  31, 
  1910. 
  

   It 
  contains 
  1,010 
  introductions, 
  an 
  increase 
  of 
  588 
  over 
  those 
  of 
  the 
  

   quarter 
  ended 
  December 
  31, 
  1909. 
  

  

  Some 
  of 
  these 
  introductions 
  merit 
  especial 
  mention 
  in 
  this 
  intro- 
  

   ductory 
  statement. 
  In 
  Nos. 
  26471 
  to 
  26475 
  we 
  have 
  several 
  inter- 
  

   esting 
  introductions 
  from 
  Kashmir, 
  India, 
  embracing 
  a 
  cherry 
  

   (No. 
  26471), 
  a 
  peach 
  (No. 
  26472), 
  an 
  apricot 
  (No. 
  26473), 
  a 
  pear 
  

   (No. 
  26474), 
  and 
  an 
  apple 
  (No. 
  26475). 
  Five 
  hardy 
  drought- 
  

   resistant 
  Chinese 
  pears 
  come 
  to 
  us 
  from 
  Manchuria 
  under 
  Nos. 
  

   26485 
  to 
  26489. 
  Another 
  introduction 
  of 
  interest 
  is 
  a 
  dry-land 
  

   shrub 
  related 
  to 
  Citrus 
  (Limonia 
  acidissima, 
  No. 
  26496) 
  from 
  Kirkee, 
  

   India. 
  This 
  will 
  be 
  especially 
  valuable 
  for 
  breeding 
  purposes. 
  No. 
  

   26511 
  is 
  a 
  wild 
  pomegranate 
  (Punica 
  protopunica) 
  from 
  the 
  island 
  

   of 
  Socotra, 
  probably 
  a 
  prototype 
  of 
  the 
  cultivated 
  pomegranate. 
  

   This 
  was 
  introduced 
  for 
  breeding 
  purposes 
  and 
  as 
  a 
  suitable 
  stock 
  

   for 
  the 
  southwest 
  sections 
  of 
  the 
  country 
  on 
  which 
  to 
  graft 
  the 
  

   improved 
  form. 
  The 
  first 
  generation 
  of 
  potatoes 
  from 
  seed 
  intro- 
  

   duced 
  from 
  Chile 
  (Nos. 
  26517 
  to 
  26535); 
  a 
  number 
  of 
  interesting 
  

   species 
  of 
  wild 
  clovers 
  from 
  the 
  mountains 
  of 
  Turkey, 
  for 
  testing 
  and 
  

   breeding 
  purposes 
  (Nos. 
  26574 
  to 
  26578); 
  a 
  wild 
  medicago 
  (No. 
  

   26590) 
  from 
  the 
  arid 
  mountain 
  regions 
  of 
  Algeria; 
  seeds 
  of 
  the 
  native 
  

   hardy 
  Manchurian 
  pear 
  (No. 
  26591) 
  are 
  all 
  worthy 
  of 
  attention. 
  

  

  An 
  introduction 
  of 
  considerable 
  commercial 
  value 
  is 
  the 
  Black 
  

   Monukka 
  seedless 
  grape 
  of 
  India. 
  This 
  was 
  found 
  by 
  the 
  writer 
  in 
  

   the 
  greenhouses 
  of 
  the 
  Royal 
  Horticultural 
  Society 
  at 
  Wisley, 
  Eng- 
  

   land, 
  and 
  sent 
  in 
  at 
  his 
  request 
  by 
  Rev. 
  W. 
  Wilks, 
  secretary 
  of 
  the 
  

   society. 
  This 
  adds 
  a 
  dark-purple 
  seedless 
  grape 
  to 
  the 
  seedless 
  grapes 
  

   already 
  in 
  cultivation 
  in 
  America. 
  A 
  number 
  of 
  varieties 
  of 
  soy 
  

   beans 
  from 
  Manchuria 
  (Nos. 
  26643 
  to 
  26646) 
  and 
  two 
  species 
  of 
  

   dry-land 
  alfalfa 
  from 
  the 
  Crimea 
  (Nos. 
  26666 
  and 
  26667) 
  ; 
  Medicago 
  

   orbicularis 
  (No. 
  26673) 
  from 
  Balaklava, 
  Crimea, 
  an 
  annual 
  form 
  

   found 
  growing 
  on 
  dry, 
  hilly 
  slopes 
  and 
  on 
  sterile, 
  stony 
  plains, 
  and 
  

   much 
  relished 
  by 
  sheep 
  and 
  horses, 
  will 
  be 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  forage-crop 
  

  

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