
          cooking, it is believed that in its proper season this variety will 
prove very popular on the markets. The lateral tubers are much better 
baked than boiled.

58460. COLVILLEA RACEMOSA. From Trinidad, British West Indies. Presented 
by W. G. Freeman, Director of Agriculture. A handsome, tropical tree, 
which attains a height of 40 to 50 feet, and has fein-like twice-pinnate 
leaves up to 3 feet long. The brilliant scarlet flowers are produced 
in dense racemes about a foot and a half in length, arising from the 
axils of the upper leaves. Related to the royal poinciana, which it is 
said to rival in beauty. Since it is not yet commonly cultivated in 
tropical America, it is recommended for trial in southern Florida, 
Porto Rico, Cuba, the Canal Zone and elsewhere.

56301. CORNUS CAPITATA. Dogwood. From Yunnan, China. Collected by 
J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer, in the mountains of western China. 
A very handsome, deciduous or partially evergreen, flowering tree of 
bushy habit. As in the American flowering dogwood, the apparent petals 
are really large, showy, cream-white or yellow bracts 2 inches long, 
subtending the cluster of inconspicuous flowers. Before falling, the 
bracts turn ruddy. The fruit is a fleshy, strawberry-shaped, crimson 
head a little more than an inch wide, with yellow, sweet, and edible 
flesh, very popular in China where it is sold in the markets.

52677. COTONEASTER DAMMERI RADICANS. From China. Presented by Vilmorin-Andrieux & Company, Paris, France. A low shrub from central China, with evergreen foliage, and attractive, brignt-red berries. The leaves are 
elliptic, about an inch long, and the flowers white, half an inch broad. 
The variety radicans differs from the typical form in being more prostrate 
in habit, and in having few-flowered clusters of blossoms on long stalks. 
This is a promising cotoneaster for ground covers and rockeries.

38760. COTONEASTER FRIGIDA. Presented by H. E. Huntington, Los Angeles, 
California. A strong-growing, large-leaved species native to the Himalayan 
slopes of northern India at altitudes of 7,000 to 10,000 feet. The numerous, 
white flowers are followed by a profusion of strikingly attractive, bright-
red berries. This shrub has shown itself a desirable ornamental for mild-
wintered regions and will doubtless be more extensively grown in those 
portions of the United States to which it is adapted. It may be propagated 
from seed, by layering or from cuttings.

32935. COTONEASTER MICROPHYLLA THYMIFOLIA. Fire Thorn. From the Himalayas of northern India. Seeds presented by Alwin Berger, La Mortola Botanic Garden, Ventimiglia, Italy. An attractive, evergreen shrub of prostrate 
or trailing habit, with small, ovate, dark-green leaves, small, white 
flowers, and red berries a quarter of an inch in diameter. Recommended 
as a covering for sloping banks, on which it will form dense low thickets. 
Hardy in England, and therefore perhaps suitable for cultivation in this 
country as far north as Philadelphia, and perhaps in colder regions.

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