state of Maranhac, Brazil, in a l)lack loam, either overlying or mixt with 



The rice is called CaroUita. 



DECEMBEE^ 1903. TO DECEMBER^ 1905. 93 



12453 to 12547— Continued. 



12519 to 12520. Rice. 



From Italy. Presented Ijy Messrs. Dannnann & Co., San (Jiovanni a 

 Teduccio, near Naples. Received October 3, 1904. 



12519. Italian. No special name given. 



12520. Italian. No special name given; probably the same kind as 



12519. 



12521. Thessali/. Rice. 



From Greece. Presented by Mr. 8. Nanthopaulo, Station Airricole, 

 Patras. Received in August, 1904. 



12522. Rice. 



From Brazil. Presented bv Consul Louis H. Avme, Para. Received in 

 August, 1904. 



Rice paddy, like that grown in the districts of (iuama and Irituba, in the 

 ;.ate of Maranhac, Brazil, 

 sandy gravel and sandstone. 



12523 and 12524. Rice. 



^ From German East Africa. Presented by Mr. ['do von Katte, Plantage 



'^ Kigome, Bezirk Tanga. Received October 5, 1904. 



* 12523. .,Yoy?(7ro paddy. 12524. A7A-(/?/(?(/ paddy. 



12525 to 12547. Rice. 



From Java. Presented by Mr. Charles A. Franc, Soerabaya, Java, Dutch 

 East Indies. Received November 17, 1904. 



12525 to 12540. Amj^enan 

 paddy. 



12541. Magetan paddy. 



12542. Fekalongan paddy. 



12543. Fekalongan paddy. 



12548. Crataegus sp. (?) 



From City of Mexico, Mexico. Received from Mr. G. Clark, thru Mr. G. Onder- 

 donk, of Nursery, Tex., December 31, 1904. 



This species of (_'r<tl<i,iius \< used in different parts of jMexico as a stock upon which 

 the European and American type of pears are grafted. In a letter of May 30, 1904, 

 Mr. Onderdonk describes the use of this stock as follows: "While there is to be 

 found an occasional young tijocate growing in a cultivated lot with intention of being 

 made a stock for pears by grafting where it stands, yet no narseries,of it exist. It 

 grows wild in the most forbidding situations. The earliest fruits begin to ripen 

 about the last of July, while the largest numbermatureabout October or November. 

 I saw many line old pear trees in different parts of Mexico on tijocate stock, and for 

 the European and American type of pears there can be no better stock than tijocate.'" 



12549. Medicago sativa. ^ Alfalfa. 



From Buenos Aires, Argentina. Received thru Mr. Ronaldo Tidblom, August 

 12, 1905. 



12550. PoA PRATENSis. Kentucky bluegrass. 



From Winchester, Ky. Received thru ]Mr. D. S. Gay, December 2, 1904. 



12551. (Undetermined.) 



From Central Africa. Presented by Mrs. Anita N. McGee, 1620 P street, AVash- 

 ington, D. C. Received thru Mr. Dayid Fairchild, December 31, 1904. 



A single plant, said to be the first of its kind ever brought to America and t(» 

 belong to the order Scitamineae. The plant was introduced by Mr. Yernon, who 

 brought the Pigmies to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. {Fairchild.) 



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12544. 



/Sb/o 'M" paddy. 



12545. 



Solo -'i)'" paddy. 



12546. 



Djember paddy. 



12547. 



Djemhev paddy. 



