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  SEEDS 
  AND 
  PLANTS 
  IMPORTED. 
  

  

  Possibly 
  some 
  amateur 
  who 
  has 
  seen 
  the 
  thousands 
  of 
  unutilized 
  

   May 
  apples 
  which 
  grow 
  in 
  our 
  eastern 
  forests 
  might 
  like 
  to 
  try 
  some 
  

   experiments 
  in 
  breeding 
  them 
  with 
  the 
  Himalayan 
  species 
  (Podophyl- 
  

   lum 
  emodi, 
  No. 
  29328). 
  A 
  cherimoya 
  from 
  an 
  altitude 
  of 
  5,000 
  feet 
  

   in 
  Mexico, 
  as 
  large 
  as 
  a 
  coconut, 
  a 
  good 
  shipper, 
  and 
  selling 
  locally 
  

   for 
  25 
  cents 
  apiece, 
  will 
  interest 
  California 
  and 
  Florida 
  growers 
  who 
  

   are 
  experimenting 
  with 
  this 
  promising 
  fruit 
  (No. 
  29350). 
  Talauma 
  

   mutabilis 
  (No. 
  29358) 
  from 
  Java, 
  though 
  a 
  strictly 
  tropical 
  species, 
  

   is 
  closely 
  enough 
  related 
  to 
  the 
  magnolias 
  to 
  suggest 
  that, 
  owing 
  to 
  

   its 
  gorgeous 
  yellow 
  flowers, 
  it 
  is 
  worth 
  trying 
  to 
  hybridize 
  it 
  with 
  our 
  

   white-flowering 
  hardy 
  species. 
  To 
  those 
  who 
  still 
  believe, 
  as 
  we 
  do, 
  

   that 
  the 
  mangosteen 
  needs 
  a 
  stock 
  plant, 
  the 
  bitter 
  kola 
  (Garcinia 
  

   kola, 
  No. 
  29362) 
  of 
  Nigeria, 
  as 
  well 
  as 
  a 
  wild 
  species 
  of 
  Garcinia 
  from 
  

   Brazil 
  (No. 
  30225), 
  will 
  be 
  of 
  interest. 
  In 
  an 
  attempt 
  to 
  obtain 
  

   varieties 
  of 
  tobacco 
  which 
  will 
  resist 
  the 
  wilt 
  disease 
  that 
  threatens 
  a 
  

   wide 
  area 
  of 
  tobacco 
  land 
  in 
  the 
  South, 
  we 
  have 
  continued 
  the 
  intro- 
  

   duction 
  of 
  as 
  many 
  types 
  of 
  tobacco 
  from 
  Cuba, 
  Central 
  America, 
  and 
  

   Mexico 
  as 
  can 
  be 
  found, 
  a 
  number 
  being 
  included 
  in 
  this 
  inventory. 
  

  

  The 
  probable 
  development 
  of 
  persimmon 
  growing 
  as 
  a 
  great 
  fruit 
  

   industry 
  has 
  warranted 
  us 
  in 
  continuing 
  our 
  search 
  for 
  as 
  many 
  species 
  

   as 
  possible 
  which 
  have 
  any 
  likelihood 
  of 
  usefulness 
  to 
  the 
  breeder, 
  and 
  

   this 
  inventory 
  announces 
  the 
  introduction 
  of 
  the 
  ebony 
  tree 
  of 
  Ceylon 
  

   (No. 
  29384); 
  a 
  seedless 
  and 
  puckerless 
  chance 
  seedling 
  from 
  Florida 
  

   (No. 
  29329); 
  the 
  black 
  tsao 
  (Diospyros 
  lotus, 
  No. 
  29486) 
  from 
  

   Tientsin; 
  and 
  a 
  nonastringent 
  Japanese 
  variety 
  (No. 
  30066). 
  

  

  One 
  of 
  the 
  largest 
  and 
  rarest 
  dates 
  and, 
  justly, 
  the 
  most 
  celebrated 
  

   date 
  of 
  Tunis 
  is 
  the 
  Menakher, 
  which 
  was 
  studied 
  by 
  Mr. 
  Thomas 
  H. 
  

   Kearney 
  several 
  years 
  ago 
  in 
  the 
  oases 
  of 
  Tunis. 
  No. 
  29391 
  repre- 
  

   sents 
  a 
  shipment 
  of 
  1,000 
  pounds 
  of 
  this 
  remarkable 
  date 
  imported 
  

   in 
  order 
  to 
  obtain 
  the 
  seed 
  for 
  date 
  planters 
  in 
  the 
  Southwest. 
  

  

  The 
  Abyssinian 
  clovers 
  have 
  attracted 
  the 
  attention 
  of 
  at 
  least 
  one 
  

   breeder 
  in 
  America, 
  so 
  he, 
  and 
  probably 
  others, 
  will 
  be 
  interested 
  in 
  

   11 
  strains 
  collected 
  by 
  the 
  American 
  vice 
  consul 
  general 
  at 
  Addis 
  

   Abeba 
  (Nos. 
  29392 
  to 
  29403). 
  As 
  an 
  ornamental 
  vine, 
  Cissus 
  capensis 
  

   (No. 
  29408) 
  is 
  worthy 
  of 
  special 
  attention, 
  for 
  as 
  now 
  growing 
  on 
  Mr. 
  

   H. 
  E. 
  Huntington's 
  place 
  in 
  Pasadena 
  it 
  is 
  certainly 
  a 
  most 
  promising 
  

   plant 
  for 
  southern 
  California. 
  A 
  peculiar 
  interest 
  would 
  be 
  attached 
  

   to 
  the 
  cotton 
  seeds 
  (Nos. 
  29411 
  and 
  29412) 
  by 
  American 
  cotton 
  

   growers 
  if 
  they 
  realized 
  that 
  Mesopotamia, 
  the 
  country 
  of 
  their 
  origin, 
  

   is 
  likely 
  to 
  be 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  great 
  cotton-producing 
  regions 
  of 
  the 
  world 
  

   as 
  soon 
  as 
  Sir 
  William 
  Willcocks 
  finishes 
  his 
  great 
  irrigation 
  scheme 
  

   on 
  the 
  Tigris. 
  

  

  The 
  growth 
  in 
  popularity 
  in 
  America 
  of 
  the 
  casaba, 
  or 
  winter 
  musk- 
  

   melon, 
  will 
  make 
  the 
  description 
  of 
  cultural 
  methods 
  employed 
  in 
  

   Malta 
  of 
  interest 
  to 
  the 
  specialist 
  in 
  this 
  new 
  winter 
  fruit 
  (No. 
  29458). 
  

  

  