SEPTEMBER, 1900, TO DECEMBER, 1903. 105 



6671. Cannabis indica. Hemp. 



From Royal Botannical Garden, Sibpur, Calcutta, India. Received May 31, 

 1901. 



6672. Larix leptolepis. Japanese larch. 



From Japan. Received through Vilmorin Andrieux & Co., Paris, France, 

 June 3, 1901. 



6673 to 6678. Gossypium barbadense. Cotton. 



From Cairo, Egvpt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild (Nos. 600-605, 

 April 18, 1901)", June 10, 1901. 



"A collection of cottons which have been selected by Christian Stamm, of Cairo, 

 from fields of the Egyptian cotton and from his own experimental plats. 



6673. 



Mit Afifi. Selected cream color. First year of selection. 



6674. 



Very large growing variety, 2 to 2.50 meters high, bearing very large cap- 

 sules. Grown in Stamm' s garden in Cairo. 



6675. 



Jannovitch. Cream colored, selected from Stamm 's own garden. 



6676. 



The descendant of a cross between a variety sent year before last to Mr. H. J. 

 Webber and a variety called by Stamm "Berla." Shows tendency toward 

 cream color. 



6677. 



Berla. Second generation. Selected from fields as the yellowest sort 

 among many thousands. The yield of this soft was very high, even double 

 that of many others grown in Stamm' s garden. 



6678. 



"Wild cotton from Omdurman in the Sudan." (Fairchild.) 



6679. Gossypium barbadense. Cotton. 



From Shibin-el-Kanater, Egypt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild, June 

 10, 1901. 



Mit Afifi. Ordinary variety. 



6680. Triticum durum. Wheat. 



From Minieh, Egypt. Received through Mr. D. G. Fairchild (No. 634, May 5, 

 1901), June 10, 1901. 



Mishriki. "A very fine variety of this wheat which was exhibited last season at the 

 Khedivial Agricultural Society's show in Cairo, and which Mr. George P. Foaden, the 

 secretary of the society, remarked as the finest he has ever seen in Egypt. Secured 

 through Mr. Foaden's kindness from the grow r er in the province of Minieh, which 

 lies between the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth degrees of latitude. The wheat is 

 grown on irrigated land, and from all I can ascertain is remarkably pure, considering 

 how mixed almost all Egyptian wheats are. This wheat will probably not with- 

 stand the cold winters of the pi" *ns at all, but will very likely prove of great value 

 in Texas. It is a hard wheat, whose qualities for macaroni making are quite unknown. 

 Its yielding capacity, I believe, will prove satisfactory, although its resistance to rust, 

 I surmise, may not equal that of other Egyptian sorts, for I notice the heads sent 

 as samples are more or less rusted. Should be planted on soil receiving irrigation 

 and tried as a winter wheat in the Southwest on good, rich, stiff soil." (Fairchild.) 

 (See No. 7016.) 



