
          PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM.
Poppy. Erect annual, with handsome
vari-colored flowers. Cultivated in
Orient for opium manufacture. 
Introduced into this country for the use
of its palatable seeds in confectionery
and the preparation of morphia for
medicinal purposes. The seeds yield
a comestible oil. Sow thickly in spring
and thin to 6 inches in rows 12 inches
apart. Of comparatively easy culture.

35035. PARKIA TIMORIANA.
Cupang. Very large, leguminous, 
ornamental forest tree, 115 feet high,
indigenous to the Philippines, with
vase-shaped, wide-spreading, open
crown; fern-like leaves with very
small leaflets; small white flowers in
dense, pear-shaped panicles; black
flattened pendulous pods, 18 inches
long.

PASANIA CORNEA. Oak. Native
of South China. Ornamental 40 foot
evergreen tree, producing extremely
hard-shelled, edible acorns, which
have attractire shaped white sweet
kernels of very fine flavor. Highly
esteemed by Europeans as well as by
the Chinese. If productive should have
possibilities as a new table nut. For
testing in regions of evergreen oaks in
the south.
        