DECEMBEE, 1903^ TO DECEMBER^ 1905. 



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Rice. 



Received January 28, 



12876. " Laer-ChajJ." (No. 3.) 



12874 to 12876. Oryza sativa. 



From Canton, China. Presented by Mr. T. E. Griffith. 

 1905. 

 Samples of Chinese rice, as follows: 



12874. ''Shie-Mlu:' (No. 1.) 



12875. ''Ai-Miu.'' (No. 2.) 



"As to the local manner of planting this rice, a seed bed some 30 yards square is 

 prepared alongside of the large rice fields about the month of August. This seed 

 bed is composed of softish mud, and the grain is scattered over the surface, which is 

 kept wet enough to cause it to sprout. In about three weeks' time the mass of seed- 

 lings are about 10 inches in height, when they are taken up and planted out in the 

 rice fields in bunches of 20 or so seedlings together, at intervals of a foot between 

 bunches. 



"The soil of the fields is a bluish alluvial mud, and, after planting, it is kept con- 

 stantly inundated with water from the numerous creeks which intersect the country. 

 In about one hundred clays from planting out the grain is ripe, and is then gathered 

 in." {Griffith.) 



12877 to 12895. 



From New Zealand. Presented by the government of New Zealand thru Mr. 

 ]\I. A. Carleton. Received February 11, 1905. 

 A collection of grains, etc., from the New Zealand exhibit at the Lousiana Pur- 

 chase Exposition, St. Louis, Mo., 1904. 



12877 to 12882. Avena sativa. 



12877. Danish. 



12878. Dun. 



12879. Sparrowhill. 

 12883 to 12886. Triticum vulgake. 



12883. Pearl. 



12884. (No label.) 

 12887 to 12889. Pisum sativum. 



Broivn. (Marked 



12887. 



"B.") 



12888. 



"C") 





Oat. 



12880. 



Canadian. 



12881. 



White Tartar. 



12882. 



Black Tartar. 





Wheat. 



12885. 



Hunter's. 



12886. 



Tuscan. 





Pea. 



12889. 



Green. 



Green. (Marked 



12890. Teifolium repens. 



12891. Trifolium pratense. 

 Colonial. 



12892. LOLIUM ITALICUM. 



12893. LoLiUM peeenxe. 



12894. Phleum pratexse. 



Colonial. 



12895. DaCTYLIS CiLOMERATA. 

 12896. LiLIUM NEILGHERRENSE. 



White clover. 

 Red clover. 



Italian rye-grass. 



Perennial rye-grass. 



Timothy. 



Orchard grass. 



Neilgherry lily. 



From Utakamund, India. Keceived thru Mr. G. H. Cave, superintendent of 

 the Government Botanic Gardens, February 14, 1904. 



12897 to 12899. 



From Durban, Natal. Presented by INIr. J. Medley AVood, director of the 



Botanic Gardens. Received February 14, 1905. 

 - 12897. CoFFEA zanguebaeiae (?). Coffee. 



"According to a letter of Januarv 12, 1905, from Mr. Wood, this species of 



Coffea, regarding the identification of which he is doubtful, is quite immune 



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