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1C9409. FRAXINUS HOLOTRICHA. Ash. From Roumania. Collected in the Danube Delta by 

 Dr. Edgar Anderson, of the Arnold Arboretum. A small tree of unknown origin, first 

 observed in cultivation in Germany. The leaves, 6 to 10 inches long, are composed 

 of 9 to 13 leaflets. The young branchlets, Isaf-stalks, and both surfaces of the 

 leaves are clothed with a dense soft down. For trial especial]- in the drier cold 

 regions of the United States. (Supply very limited.) (Glenn Daxo, Md.) 



65014. FUCHSIA CORYMBIFLORA . From the Mediterranean region. Collected by David 

 Fairchild, agricultural explorer. A handsome, Peruvian fuchsia with large, serrate, 

 acuminate leaves and deep-red flowers. The plant becomes tall but requires support 

 ir. order to attain full height, and it is therefore adapted for pillars or pergolas 

 in the warmest parts of the United States. (Chico, Calif.) 



101949. FUCHSIA MICROPHYLLA. * From Scotland. Presented by the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh. (Received under the specific name codringtonii , for which no pub- 

 lished description has been found, and which probably is an error for Coderinghami . 

 a garden form of F\_ microphylla . ) A shrubby hybrid fuchsia about 18 inches high, with 

 small, oval, pale-green, acute leaves less than an inch long; and very small, deep 

 rose-red, trumptet-shaped, pendulous flowers borne freely in the summer. For trial 

 as a greenhouse plant or for outdoor culture in summer. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



100980. GLAUCOTHEA ARMATA. Blue palm. From Baj a California, Mexico. Obtained from 

 Howard E. Gates, Anaheim, Calif. A stout fan-palm with a robust trunk up to 8 feet in 

 diameter and 20 feet high, crowned by numerous glaucous-blue leaves nearly circular 

 in outline and deeply cut into many segments. The flowers are dull purple. For trial 

 in central and southern Florida and southern California. (Supply very limited.) 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



97292. GLOTTIPHYLLUM DEPRESSUM. Aizoaceae. From Afr.oa. Presented by C. Starke & 

 Co., Ltd., Mowbray, Capetown, through Mrs. C. I. DeBevoise, Greens Farms, Conn. A 

 stemless prostrate succulent, native to southern Africa, with narrow tongue-shaped, 

 recurved-depressed acute leaves, and large solitary yellow flowers with recurved 

 petals, on a short peduncle. For trial indoors except in the Gulf region and the 

 warmest parts of the southwest. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



97293. GLOTTIPHYLLUM SP. From Africa. Presented by C. Starke & Co., Ltd., Mowbray, 

 Capetown, through Mrs. C. I. DeBevoise, Green? Farms, Conn. A stemless prostrate 

 succulent, native to southern Africa, similar to Glottiphyllum depressum in vegetative 

 characters but with leaves nearly twice as broad and thick. For trial indoors only 

 except in the Gulf region and the warmest parts of the Southwest, (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



76216. HAWORTHIA ANGUSTIFOLIA . From South Africa. Obtained from W. and C. Gowie, 

 Grthamstown, through Hugh Evans, Santa Monica, Calif. A low succulent plant with a 

 very short stem and a rosette of about 20 ascending, lanceolate, acuminate, pale- 

 green leaves 1 to 2 inches long, flat on the face, convex on the back. The small 

 whitish flowers are in a lax, few-flowered raceme on a slender peduncle about 6 inches 

 long. For trial indoors only except in southern California and southern Florida. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. 



