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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 



63856 to 63366. Olea europaea L. 

 Oleaceae. Olive. 



From Pescia, Province of Lucca, Italy. 

 Plants purchased from E. d'Uliva & Fra- 

 telli. Received May 11, 1925. Notes 

 taken from the catalogue of d'Uliva & 

 Fratelli. 



A collection of Italian varieties, not 

 known in the American trade, introduced 

 for 1 rial in the olive-growing sections of 

 the United States. 



. Ascolana. A canning variety cul- 

 tivated from time immemorial in As- 

 coli. It is a constant and abundant 

 fruiter, with large, dark-green, lightly 

 undulate leaves. The large fruits are 

 almost spherical, with rich, delicate 

 flesh of pleasant flavor ; the seed is 

 small. 



63857. Asiolani. 



63858. Dolce del Morocco. A variety 

 with fruits larger than those grown for 

 oil, especially adapted for drying. 



63859. Enijuiolo. 



63860. Fruntoi. Cultivated for oil. 



638S1. Orappolo. Rather large olives, 

 produced in clusters. The fruits are 

 rich in oil. 



63862. Lecci. A vigorous variety culti- 

 vated for oil. 



. Maurini. An excellent new va- 

 riety, producing oil of good quality. 



63864. Racemo. A prolific variety, dis- 

 ease resistant, with ashy green leaves ; 

 the ovoid fruits are rich in oil. 



63865. Moraioli. A vigorous drought- 

 resistant and disease-resistant variety 

 which yields an abundance of oil of 

 good quality. 



63866. Zantis. 



63867. Brassica sp. Brassicaceae. 



From Kwangtung Province, China. Seeds 

 collected by F. A. McClure, agricultural 

 explorer, Bureau of Plant Industry. Re- 

 ceived May 7, 1925. 



No. 118. March 9, 1925. Yau tsoi. 

 Seeds collected from plants which had 

 escaped from cultivation, growing along the 

 bank of the West River near Lohyanchung. 

 (McClure.) 



63868. Neoglaziovia variegata (Ar- 

 ruda) Mez (Billbergia variegata 

 Schult. ) . Bromeliaceae. 



From Bahia, Brazil. Plants obtained from 

 Dr. H. H. Brown, St. Albans, Vt., through 

 L. H. Dewey, Bureau of Plant Industry- 

 Received May 6, 1925. 



The caroa is a plant 4 or 5 feet high, 

 of the same family as the pineapple, and is 

 found wild in the caatingas or dry regions 

 of eastern Brazil. The natives extract the 

 fiber for the purpose of making baskets, 

 ropes, and hammocks, but the quantity ob- 

 tained is not sufficient for export. It is 

 now; introduced for trial in the southern 

 United States by fiber-plant specialists. It 

 is also being tested as a possible paper 

 material. 



63869 to 63875. 



From Kwangtung Province, China. Seeds 

 and rhizomes collected by F. A. McClure, 

 agricultural explorer, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. Received May 7, 1925. Notes 

 by Mr. McClure. 



638GS. Pisum sativum L. Fabaceae. 



Pea. 



No. 119. Village of Heunglokeuk, March 

 13,. 1925. Maak tau, &uet tau, Chun tau. 

 Seeds of a sturdy, low-growing, self-sup- 

 porting vine which produces, in fair 

 abundance, rather large p^eas of good 

 flavor and quality. The flowers are very 

 ornamental, the lower petal being pale 

 lavender, tin; next pair wine red. and 

 the inner pair pink. This variety, planted 

 here in November, begins to bear in De- 

 cember or January and continues until 

 March. 



63870 to 63875. (Undetermined.) Po- 

 aceae. Bamboo. 



63870. (Undetermined.) 



No. 108. March 14, 1925. Kom chuk. 

 A variety growing wild along a small 

 stream in the Chunwong Mountains, 

 near the village of Heunglokeuk, at an 

 altitude of 300 meters. The young 

 shoots of this bamboo are highly es- 

 teemed by the Chinese of this neigh- 

 borhood. This bamboo, as seen in its 

 native habitat, is rather small in 

 stature, being only 2 to 2.5 meters in 

 height, and 1 to 1.5 centimeters in di- 

 ameter between the lower nodes. Its 

 best shoots are produced on the loose 

 silt loam banks of the stream, but it 

 can not hold its own here so well as 

 on the wet sand and gravel at the edge 

 of the water, where it produces an im- 

 penetrable network of rhizomes. It 

 might be used to excellent advantage 

 for preventing erosion in such situa- 

 tions. 



63871. (Undetermined.) 



No. 109, March 14, 1925. Wong 

 kom chuk. Obtained from the wild, at 

 an altitude of 300 meters, in the Chun- 

 wong Mountains, near Heunglokeuk. 

 A dense grove of this bamboo, whose 

 canes are about 3 meters in height 

 and 1.5 to 2 centimeters in diameter 

 between the lower nodes, completely 

 conceals the tiny stream, along which 

 these rhizomes were growing, for a 

 considerable distance. This variety, 

 like No. 108 [S. P. I. No. 63870], 

 forms its toughest and most impreg- 

 nable network of rhizomes in the wet 

 sand immediately at the edge of the 

 water, but its finest shoots are pro- 

 duced in the rich-brown loose soil of 

 the bank near by. The shoots are 

 edible, but the Chinese say that it is 

 necessary to parboil them in order to 

 remove the slightly hitter taste. The 

 canes are put to a number of uses, 

 particularly to the weaving of garden 

 fences. The upper portions of the 

 canes, with their numerous, slender 

 side branches, are bound into brooms 

 which are widely used locally and are 

 shipped even as far as Canton. 



63872. (Undetermined.) 



No. 110. March 14, 1925. Fat t'o 

 chuk, Fat chuk. These rhizomes are 

 from the native vegetation in a ravine 

 near Heunglokeuk, in the Chunwong 

 Mountains, where this variety had been 

 planted. This is another relatively 

 small bamboo (2 to 2.5 meters high 



