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279794. DAUCUS POLYGAMUS GOVAN. 
No. 23. Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain. 
279795. DAUCUS PULCHERRIMUS Koch ex DC. 
No. 24. Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain. 
279796. DAUCUS PUMILUS Ball 
No. 9. Hortus Botanicus, Coimbra, Portugal. 
279797. DAUCUS PUSILLUS Michx. 
No. 25. Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain. 
279798. DAUCUS SETULOSUS Guss. ex DC. 
No. 26. Jardin Botanico, Madrid, Spain. 
279799 to 279801. ORLAYA GRANDIFLORA Hoffm. Apiaceae. 
279799. No. 41. Botanic Garden, Copenhagen, Denmark. 
279800. No. 44. Botanic Garden, Uppsala, Sweden. 
279801. No. 47. Institut de Botanique, Liege, Belgium. 
279802 to 279821. 
From Canada. Seeds presented by the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, 
Ontario. Received March 21, 1962. 
279802. AGROPYRON CRISTATUM (L.) Gaertn. Poaceae. 
Crested wheatgrass. 
‘Fairway’. Stems and leaves remain green after seeds mature; head to 
4 inches long, fanlike; seeds have short slender awns; root system very 
extensive. 
279803. ASPARAGUS OFFICINALIS L. Convallariaceae. Garden asparagus. 
‘Eden’. An early ‘Martha Washington’, not producing as heavy first 2 
weeks of harvest. Shows resistance to rust under field epidemic at Ottawa. 
279804 and 279805. BRASSICA NAPUS var. NAPOBRASSICA (L.) Reichb. 
Brassicaceae. Rutabaga. 
279804. ‘Acadia’. Bred from commercial strain of ‘Bangholm’, by the 
Division of Forage Plants, Central Experiment Farm, Ottawa. Plants 
large; leaves erect. glaucous, green variations; shoulder rough with 
some cracks, purple; flesh yellow. 
279805. ‘Laurentian’, Bred by Agronomy Department, Macdonald Col- 
lege from a strain of Bangholm 8112 MC’. Skin purple; flesh uniform. 
279806. BRASSICA OLERACEA var. CAPITATA L. Cabbage. 
‘Canadian Acre’. Head ball shaped, averaging 800 grams, very firm with 
wrapper leaves closely adherent and fully covering head. 
279807. CUCUMIS SATIVUS L. Cucurbitaceae. Cucumber. 
‘Delcrow’. Fruit dark green with pale green striping at blossom end; 5.2 
by 19 em.; flesh white with trace of green extending inward from skin. 
For home and greenhouse growing. 
279808. DACTYLIS GLOMERATA L. Poaceae. 
‘Hercules’. Mass selected from Manchurian material. Plants leafy, 
upright, growing luxuriantly in the spring and maturing 1 week later 
than commercial orchardgrasses. 
279809. GLYCINE MAX (L.) Merrill Fabaceae. Soybean. 
‘Blackeye’. Color 62/3 (yellowish green) with black hilum; edible; for 
home garden, freezing and canning; in areas with moderately long sum- 
mer. 
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Orchardgrass. 
