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10598 to 10614— Continued. 



10611. Teiticum POLOxicuM (?). Wheat. 

 Red Winter; unirrigated. 



10612. Andropogox sorghum (?). Sorg-hum. 

 Djugava. 



10613. Chaetochloa italica. ^ Millet. 

 Kunach, or Kunak. 



10614. KOSTELETZKYA PEXTACARPA. 



Kanaf. 



10615 to 10620. Persea gratissima. Avocado. 



From Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented by Mr. Donald Maclntyre, ^loanalua 

 Gardens, Honolulu. Received April 22. 1904. 



10615. Large Purple. 



Flesh thick, of good, nuty flavor, yellow, and fiberless; seed comparatively 

 small, about one-fourth of fruit; crop medium; pear-shaped; length and diam- 

 eter over standard (4 by 6 inches). (No. 1.) 



10616. Small Green. 



Flesh not thick and v.'ith no nutty flavor, l)ut quite fiberless and rather 

 sweetish; fruit roundish^length in diameter about 4^^ inche^^; late, heavy bearer, 

 constant cropper. (Xo. 4. ) 



10617. La rge Greeii Bound . 



Flavor good but not nutty; length an-l diameter about 5^^ by 5 inches; crop 

 uncertain. (No. 3.) 



10618. Large Green. 



Best of all in flavor; flesh smooth, firm, and fiberless; seed small; decidedly 

 bottle-necked; length 7 inches, diameter about 4 inches; late cropper, but crop 

 fairly constant; ripening about middle of June; seed small. (No. 6.) 



10619. Small Green. 



A very early variety, not of best flavor, with fiberless fruit; seed large; not 

 decidedly pear-shaped; good grower and constant cro2:>per; ripening about May 

 25; earliest variety in Honolulu. (No. 5.) 



10620. Large Green. 



Flavor decidedly nutty and good; flesh yellow, fiberless; length and diam- 

 eter of fruit about standard; crop light, ripening about the middle of June. 



(No. 2.) 



10621. Phleum pratense. Timothy. 



From Sddermanland, Sweden. Presented bv Prof. Jakob Eriksson, Experimen- 

 talfilltet Albano, Stockholm. Eeceived April 20, 1904. 



' ' Sample of seed from crop of 1903 of Swedish timothy for the selection experiments 

 carried on by Mr. John W. Gilmore at the Cornell University Agricultural Experi- 

 ment Station. ' ' ( Falrchild. ) 



10622. Arachis hyrogaea. Peanut. 



From Japan. Presented by Prof. C. C. Georgeson, director of the Alaska Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Sitka, Alaska. Received April 18, 1904. 



10623. Convolvulus sp. Japanese morning-glory. 



From Japan. Presented by Prof. C. C. Georgeson, director of the Alaska Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station, Sitka, Alaska. Received April 18, 1904. 

 Seed of Japanese morning-glories, which are known as being the most beautiful 

 varieties in the world. 

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