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development of this species in southern France and Algeria many years ago was said to 

 be inarvelously rapid. It is one of the best trees for desert tracts and in favor- 

 able places reaches 150 feet high. The wood is brown, hard, heavy, and elastic; 

 it is prettily marked, hence used for cabinetwork, but more particularly for piles, 

 bridges, and railv/ay sleepers. For trial in southern California and the Gulf region. 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



103776. EUNYMUS JAPONICUS . From Japan. Collected by P. K. Dorsett and W. J. Morse, 

 Bureau of Plant Industry, in Heibya Park, Tokyo. This form is a tree 20 feet high, 

 the fruits of which are said to be 1- to 2-seeded, reddish in color, and borne on 

 rather stiff stems than stand up among the leaves, For trial from Washington, D. C, 

 and Tennessee southward and on the Pacific coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



102937. EURYA SP . From China. Collected in Lu Shan, Kiangsi Province, and presented 

 by A. N. Steward, University of Nanking. The euryas are shrubs with simple evergreen 

 leaves and small flov.'ers commonly in axillary clusters followed by usually black, 

 berrylike fruits. This unidentified species has attractive obovate to elliptic, 

 shortly acuminate, denticulate, glabrous leaves about 2 inches long. The foliage 

 resembles that of Eurya acuminata . (Siipply limited.) For trial in the Gulf region 

 and in southern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



67798. FATSHEDHiRA LIZEI . * Araliaceae. From Paris, France. Plants presented by 

 Vilmorin-Andrieux & Co . A supposed hybrid between Fa tsia .i ap o nica moseri , a compact, 

 Japanese shrub with shining leaves, and Hede ra heli x hibe rnic a, a large-leaved Irish 

 variety of English ivy, forming erect shrubby evergreen plants with leaves int9r.mediate 

 betv/een the parents in size and lobing. The plant probably will withstand tenipera- 

 tures down to aboutO° F. v/ithout protection. For trial from Philadelphia southward 

 and in California. (Glenn Dale, Md . ) 



103931. FEROCACTUS LATISPINUS . From Cuba. Presented by the Atkin.3 Institution of 

 the Arnold Arboretum, Cienfuegos. A stout globular cactus about a foot high with 

 10 to 15 v/hite to pink spines arising from each areole. QT chose spines the 4 or 

 5 central ones are mucl-. stouter, with one much flattened and hooked. The campanulate 

 flowers, about 1 inch long are ro.^-8 purple. It is native to Mexico and was collected 

 there by Prof. Juan Balme , botanical explorer, (Supply limited.) For indoor culture 

 only except in the southern parts of California, Arizona, and Florida, (Glenn 

 Dale, Md.) 



111595. FICUS SP. Fig, From Colombia. Collected by W. A. Archer, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry. A tree bearing small edible red fr\tits. The young plants are of vigorous 

 growth, with dark-green, glossy, narrowly obovate leaves 5 to 8 inches long, terminat- 

 ing in an abruptly pnin+ed tip. For trial in southern California and the Gulf region, 

 (Chico, Calif.) 



72962. FOKIENIA HODGINSII . Pinaceae . Frcm France. Obtained from Leon Chenault, 

 Orlean.s. A rare coniferous tree up to 40 feet high, with much-flattened twigs and 

 with foliage resembling that of Libocedrus; the lateral leaves are spreading, and 

 acute at the apex. Native to Fokien Province, southeastern China. For trial only 

 in the Gulf region and the milder parts of California. (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



