
          34045. RUBUS SP. From Nice,
France, through A. Robertson Proschowsky. 
A large, climbing species,
with beautiful evergreen leaves, rose
colored flowers and yellow, juicy,
fruits of very good quality. It is such
a vigorous Rubus that it has climbed
nearly to the top of an olive tree in
Dr. Proschowsky's garden. Not yet
fruited in America.

17737. SALIX BABYLONICA.
Willow. From Frank N. Meyer, Scha
ho-schoon, China. Remarkable ornamental 
willow, 8 feet high, forming
naturally dense, flat-globular heads,
but of upright growth when planted
in hedges. The branches are long,
slender and tinged with red towards
the tips.

19857. SALIX BABYLONICA.
Weeping Willow. From St. Luzia,
Madeira. Secured by David Fairchild.
These plants are descendants of a tree
growing at St. Helena over the former
grave of Napoleon I.
        