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10565 to 10567. Trifolium spp. Clover. 



From Russia. Presented by Prof. Charles E. Bessey, of the University of 

 Nebraska. Received April 9, 1904. 



Samples of clover seed collected by Professor Bessey in the summer of 1903, as 

 follows : 



10565. Trifolium LUPiNASTEE. Five-leaf clover. 



10566. Trifolium sp. 



10567. Trifolium hybridum. Alsike. 



"Last summer I picked up several seeds of odd clovers which interested me 

 very much, and I am wondering whether you may not wnsh to have them. One 

 of these seeds is the five-foliate clover, which was given me by the professor 

 in the Agricultural Institute of Moscow. Another resembles the common red 

 clover, but is evidently distinguished from that species. I collected these 

 seeds in the heart of the Caucasus Mountains, at an altitude of probably 6,000 

 feet. The exact locality is Kazbek. Another resembles the alsike clover and 

 was obtained from the same locality as the last." {Bessey. ) 



10568. Cyperus papyrus. Egyptian paper plant. 



From Washington, D. C. Presented b}^ Mr. Peter Bisset, gardener of the Gard- 

 ner Hubbard estate, "Twin Oaks," Washington, D. C. Received JNlarch 30, 

 1904. 



10569. Fagopyrum esculentum. Buckwheat. 



From Walhonding, Ohio. Presented by the originator, Mr. Charles L. Lon- 

 singer, thru Hon. J. W. Cassingham, M. C. Received April 1, 1904. 



The variety is described by Mr. Lonsinger, in his letter of February 23, 1904, to 

 Mr. Cassingham, as follows: 



" It is a variety of my own creation and it withstands hot weather better than any 

 other variety. To determine this, I have been sowing it to have it filling during 

 heat of summer. In this I had an excellent test the summer of 1901, when it filled 

 while the thermometer registered 95° to 102° F. in the shade day after day. My 

 motive was to get a heat-resisting variety, in which I am pleased with my success. 

 What I claim for it is that it will produce plump grains in hot weather, wdien other 

 varieties fail and the Japanese varieties shrivel beside it; that it will produce more 

 per acre than SilverhuU or Japanese buckwheat, and will double the yield of either 

 in hot weather. It can be sown in spring and midsummer, or in ordinary seasons 

 two crops can be grown. 



' ' It growls a stout plant and stands up better than SilverhuU. In a test with Silver- 

 hull, 2 bushels each by weight, it produced one-half pound more flour than SilverhuU 

 and cakes were of a milder flavor than cakes from SilverhuU. Six pounds in chaff (5 

 pounds, estimated, clean seed), selected in 1902, and sown in spring of 1903 on ordi- 

 nary ground and shaded on one side by timber, produced 454 pounds, or 9 bushels 

 4 pounds. In 1902 I sowed it July 5 and it was ripe September 10." 



10570. SOLANUM TUBEROSUM. PotatO. 



From New York, N. Y. Presented by J. M. Thorburn & Co., seedsmen. 

 Earliest of All, a new seedling variety. 



10571 to 10575. 



From Arcelia, Guerrero, Mexico. Presented by Mr. Federico Chisolm. Re- 

 ceived March 28, 1904. 



A collection of bulbs and tubers, mostly unidentified. 



10576. CocHLEARiA ARMORACiA. Horse-radish. 



From Edgewater Park, N. J. Presented by Mr. B. D. Shedaker. Received 

 April 13, 1904. 



Maliner Kren. Roots grown from S. P. 1. No. 5761. 



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