Descriptive L ist 



Numbers preceding plant names are P. I. numbers and, in 

 correspondence concerning any plant, both number and name always 



must be given. 



Nurserymen please see statement at end of paragraph 3 of introductory 

 note, concerning items marked with an asterisk (*) . 



90649. ABIES HOLOPHYLLA. Needle fir. From Manchuria. Collected by P. H. Dorsett 

 and W. J. Morse, Bureau of Plant Industry. A tall handsome fir, eventually 100 feet 

 or more high, with stout spreading or ascending branches and dark-green foliage. 

 For trial in the Northern States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



122000. ACACIA CYANOPHYLLA. Araleun wattle. From South Australia. Presented by 

 J. Howard Johnson, St. Peters. A handsome, rapid-growing western Australian shrub or 

 small tree up to 18 feet in height, with drooping branches and glabrous, green, lanceo- 

 late phyllodia. The numerous flower heads are in groups of 3 to 5, in short racemes, 

 making a fine display. It seems satisfactory for pot culture in the lathhouse at 

 Chico, California, though subject to red spider. For trial as a conservatory plant or 

 outside in the warmer parts of the Southewest and in the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



111228. ACACIA DENTINENS. From South Africa. Presented by the McGregor Museum, 

 Kimberley. Zwart haak . An attractive slow-growing shrub or small tree, armed with 

 very short recurved prickles along the branches. The compound leaves have 3 pairs of 

 pinnae, each composed of one pair of obliquely ovate leaflets. The small yellow flowers 

 are in loose, sub-globose heads. The plant appears adapted for pot culture where 

 climate is unsuited for growing in open. (Supply very limited.) For trial outside in 

 the Gulf region and southern California. (Chico, Calif.) 



123453. ACACIA SP . (Mimosaceae . ) From India. Collected at Ootacamund, Nilgiri, by 

 Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A quick-growing tree with attractive pinnate 

 foliage and an abundance of fragrant creamy flowers. In India it is often planted in 

 groves. For trial in California and the Southwest and in the Gulf region. (Chico, 

 Calif.) 



124723. ACACIA SP . From Turkey. Collected at Ankara by H. L. Westover and F. L. 

 Wellman, Bureau of Plant Industry. A spiny acacia with bipinnate, blue-green leaves. 

 (Supply limited.) For trial in the Gulf region and the milder parts of California. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



125010. ACACIA SP . From Australia. Obtained from Gill & Searle, Melbourne. An 

 upright evergreen tree of moderately rapid growth, with smooth, alternate, glabrous, 

 narrowly laceolate phyllodia 6 to 7 inches long and ^ to \ inch broad. It has with- 

 stood high summer temperatures at Chico, Calif. For trial in the warmer parts of the 

 Southwest. (Chico, Calif.) 



102289. ACER DIAB0LICUM. Devil maple. From Manchuria. Obtained from Manshu Nosan 

 Shokai, Inc., Dairen. A tree up to 30 feet high with 5-lobed leaves 4 to 8 inches 

 across, the broadly ovate lobes being coarsely and remotely dentate. The racemes of 



