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small yellow flowers are followed by keys with bristly nutlets. It is native to Japan 

 and belongs in the same section of the genus as the sugar and black maples. For trial 

 as far north as central New York and west of the Rocky Mountains. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



102290. ACER MICRANTHUM. Maple. From Manchuria. Obtained from Manshu Nosan Shokai, 

 Inc., Dairen. A graceful shrubby tree of the section Macrantha, native to Japan. 

 The cordate, double-serrate leaves are 5- to 7-lobed; the small green-white flowers are 

 in slender racemes and the wings of the keys spread almost at right angles. For trial 

 from Massachusetts and central New York southward and west of the Rocky Mountains. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



114708. ACTINIDIA CORIACEA.* (Dilleniaceae. ) From China. Obtained from Szechwan 

 Province, through the Botanic Garden at Nanking. A vigorous, evergreen, climbing plant 

 from central China. The leaves are coriaceous, oblong to lanceolate, nearly entire, 

 and 3 to 4 inches long. They are bronze red passing into a metallic green and in 

 autumn take on a beautiful reddish color. The flowers are reddish and fragrant, and 

 the small ovoid fruits are greenish. For trial in the middle and lower South arid on 

 the Pacific Coast. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



116456. ALBIZZIA PROCERA . (Mimosaceae . ) From India. Collected at Saharanpur Gar- 

 dens, United Provinces, by Walter Koelz, Bureau of Plant Industry. A tall, handsome, 

 tropical, leguminous tree, often 60 to 80 feet high, with greenish white bark, large 

 pinnately compound deciduous leaves, and terminal panicles of yellowish flowers. In 

 southern and eastern India, where the tree is native, the brown heartwood is used for 

 making tools. For trial in California and the Gulf States. (Chico, Calif.) 



129183. ALBIZZIA TH0RELII. (Mimosaceae .) From China. Collected near Opie Hsien, Szechwan 

 Province, by R. C. Ching, The Lu-Shan Arboretum and Botanic Garden, Lu-Shan, Kiukiang 

 Province. A deciduous tree up to 35 feet high, with bipinnateleaves, very similar to 

 those of Albizzia j ulibrissin . For trial in the Lower South and on the Pacific Coast. 

 (Glenn Dale, Md. ) 



95361. ALLIUM SPHAER0CEPHAL0N. * Onion. From the Netherlands. Obtained from C. G. 

 Van Tubergen (Ltd.), Zwanenburg Nurseries, Haarlem. An allium of attractive color, 

 particularly useful where there is a foliage background. The maroon-red flowers, in a 

 dense head-like umbel about an inch in diameter, are on a slender stem about 18 to 24 

 inches high. At Glenn Dale, Maryland, the plants are in good flower about July 1st. 

 The leaves are rather small and few in number and extend up the stem about a third of 

 its length. For trial throughout the United States. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



124982. ANTIDESMA PLATYPHYLLUM. (Euphorbiaceae. ) From Cuba. Received from F. G. 

 Walsingham, Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum, Cienfuegos. A tree 20 to 30 

 feet high, native to the Hawaiian Islands. The subcoriaceous, ovate to obovate leaves 

 are 3 to 5 inches long and the small flowers are followed by flattened suboblique red 

 fruits about one-half inch long. For trial in the warmest parts of Florida and" South- 

 ern California. (Glenn Dale, Md.) 



102918. ARALIA CHINENSIS. From China. Collected in Lu Shan, Kiangsi Province and 

 presented by A. N. Steward, University of Nanking. An upright spiny aralia up to 15 

 feet high, with very large, bipinnate, prickly leaves over 2 feet long. The greenish- 



