﻿B. 
  P. 
  I.— 
  541. 
  

  

  SEEDS 
  AND 
  PLANTS 
  IMPORTED 
  DURING 
  THE 
  

   PERIOD 
  FROM 
  APRIL 
  1 
  TO 
  JUNE 
  30, 
  1910: 
  

   INVENTORY 
  NO. 
  23; 
  NOS. 
  27481 
  TO 
  28324. 
  

  

  INTRODUCTORY 
  STATEMENT. 
  

  

  This 
  quarterly 
  inventory, 
  covering 
  the 
  period 
  from 
  April 
  1 
  to 
  June 
  

   30, 
  1910, 
  contains 
  the 
  collections 
  of 
  only 
  one 
  agricultural 
  explorer 
  in 
  

   the 
  field, 
  Mr. 
  Frank 
  N. 
  Meyer, 
  whose 
  collecting 
  during 
  this 
  period 
  was 
  

   confined 
  to 
  the 
  mountains 
  of 
  the 
  Caucasus, 
  where 
  he 
  went 
  pending 
  

   permission 
  from 
  the 
  Russian 
  authorities 
  to 
  enter 
  Chinese 
  Turkestan. 
  

  

  Among 
  the 
  154 
  introductions 
  which 
  he 
  found 
  worthy 
  of 
  sending 
  

   in 
  are 
  the 
  Erivan 
  alfalfa 
  (No. 
  27980), 
  which 
  the 
  agriculturists 
  in 
  

   that 
  region 
  have 
  found 
  to 
  be 
  longer 
  lived 
  than 
  the 
  Turkestan 
  variety; 
  

   a 
  perennial 
  Medicago 
  with 
  large 
  leaves, 
  growing 
  at 
  an 
  altitude 
  of 
  

   4,000 
  feet, 
  which 
  promises 
  to 
  be 
  of 
  use 
  in 
  breeding 
  new 
  strains 
  of 
  

   hardy 
  alfalfa; 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  hard-fleshed 
  table 
  grapes, 
  some 
  of 
  

   which 
  have 
  unusual 
  keeping 
  and 
  shipping 
  qualities 
  (Nos. 
  27538-27540 
  

   and 
  27620-27650); 
  a 
  dry-land 
  Caucasian 
  beech 
  (No. 
  27662); 
  scions 
  

   from 
  wild 
  trees 
  of 
  a 
  shrubby 
  species 
  of 
  pear 
  for 
  use 
  as 
  a 
  dwarfing 
  stock 
  

   (JPyrus 
  nivalis 
  elaeagrifolia, 
  No. 
  27670) 
  ; 
  a 
  collection 
  of 
  Caucasian 
  

   peaches 
  (Nos. 
  27614-27619) 
  ; 
  and 
  scions 
  of 
  the 
  true 
  Paradise 
  apple 
  

   {Malus 
  pumila, 
  No. 
  27968) 
  cut 
  from 
  wild 
  trees, 
  for 
  experiments 
  with 
  

   the 
  crown 
  gall, 
  which 
  was 
  found 
  by 
  Air. 
  Meyer 
  very 
  prevalent 
  in 
  the 
  

   French 
  nurseries 
  of 
  dwarfed 
  apples 
  from 
  which 
  importations 
  are 
  

   made 
  to 
  America. 
  

  

  Of 
  the 
  plants 
  sent 
  in 
  by 
  correspondents, 
  those 
  experimenting 
  

   with 
  the 
  different 
  materials 
  used 
  in 
  paper 
  making 
  will 
  be 
  interested 
  

   in 
  the 
  Japanese 
  species 
  Abelmoschus 
  manihot 
  (No. 
  27493), 
  the 
  muci- 
  

   laginous 
  juice 
  of 
  which 
  is 
  used 
  by 
  the 
  paper 
  makers 
  of 
  Japan 
  as 
  a 
  size 
  

   for 
  their 
  handmade 
  papers. 
  A 
  new 
  and 
  delicious 
  fruit 
  introduction 
  

   by 
  Mr. 
  Walter 
  Fischer, 
  of 
  Para, 
  which 
  he 
  thinks 
  will 
  live 
  in 
  the 
  Ever- 
  

   glades, 
  is 
  the 
  Rollinia 
  (No. 
  27579), 
  which 
  grows 
  on 
  the 
  lowlands 
  along 
  

   the 
  mouth 
  of 
  the 
  Amazon 
  and 
  occurs 
  in 
  Paraguay 
  (Nos. 
  27609 
  and 
  

   27797). 
  The 
  Korean 
  chestnut 
  (No. 
  27587) 
  will 
  be 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  those 
  

   who 
  are 
  hunting 
  for 
  resistant 
  species 
  which 
  are 
  immune 
  to 
  the 
  chest- 
  

   nut-tree 
  disease, 
  which 
  is 
  doing 
  such 
  widespread 
  damage. 
  Forage- 
  

   plant 
  specialists 
  of 
  the 
  New 
  England 
  States 
  will 
  probably 
  wish 
  to 
  test 
  

  

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