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41510 to 41516— Continued. 



41514. "Common winter wheat. Spike bearded, tapering, 9 to 12 cm.; 

 glumes brown, glabrous; kernel red, medium soft; beaks 1 to 15 mm." 



41515. " Common winter wheat. Spike bearded, cylindrical, 10 to 12 

 cm.; glumes brown, glabrous; kernel amber (?), medium soft; beaks 



I to 25 mm." 



41516. " Common winter wheat. Spike bearded, beards short, 3 to 4 

 cm. ; spike cylindrical, 10 to 11 cm. ; glumes brown, pubescent ; kernel 

 amber, medium soft ; beaks 1 to 25 mm." 



41517 to 41519. Pyrus communis L. Malacese. Pear. 



From Salmon Arm, Canada. Presented by Mr. Thomas A. Sharpe. Re- 

 ceived December 3, 1915. Quoted notes from L. Spath's catalogue; ex- 

 cept as otherwise shown. 



41517. Eva BaJtet. "A very large, beautifully colored, melting, sweet 

 pear, very juicy, and similar in the quality of the flesh to the Holz- 

 farbigen butterbirne (Fondante des bois), but better flavored. Tree 

 bearing early and heavily from mid-October to the end of November. 

 This new French introduction is declared by a large number of 

 growers to be an excellent pear, worthy of distribution." 



Mr. T. A. Sharpe, ex-superintendent of the Agassiz (B. C.) Experi- 

 ment Station, is very much interested in pear culture and is fruiting 

 out a good many French varieties. He told me that the Jules Guyot 

 was a much heavier bearer than the Bartlett, wiiich it resembles very 

 closely, and it has none of the objectionable muskiness of the Bartlett, 

 and that the Marguerite Marillat, which is one of the few pears that 

 fruit on the west coast of Scotland, does very well at Salmon Arm, 

 B. C. The variety called Eva Baltet, an early fall pear, does particu- 

 larly well here, and fruits abundantly ; it was introduced in 1897. The 

 fruits do not pull down the limbs, and it begins fruiting at the crotch." 

 (David Fairchild, trip report to Canada including British Columbia, 

 fall of 1915.) 



41518. Doktor Jules Guyot. "A large to very large, excellent table and 

 market pear, ripening in September. Tree bearing early and very 

 heavily; not tender. 



41519. Marguerite Marillat. "A large to very large, fine table pear, 

 bearing early and heavily." 



41520 to 41554. 



Seeds from Bhutan, India. Collected by Mr. R. E. Cooper, and presented 

 by Bees (Ltd.), Liverpool, England, at the request of Mr. A. K. Bulley. 

 Received November 18, 1915. Quoted notes by Mr. Cooper. 



41520. Primula sp. Primulaceae. Primrose. 



II (No. 4761.) Grows at an altitude of 11,000 feet in marshy peat in 

 the open. White with star of yellow on corolla lobes." 



41521. Primula sp. Primulaceae. Primrose. 

 " (No. 4762.) Two feet tall, like sikkimensis, but brilliant golden 



yellow flowers. Grows in open glades by streams in Abies forest at an 

 altitude of 11,000 feet. Clumps on peaty turf on bowlders in the streams 

 themselves." 



