
          55941. PRUNUS sp. Plum. From Yunnan, China. Collected by J. F. 
Rock, Agricultural Explorer. A email tree found along streams in the 
Likiang Plain at altitudes of 9,500 to 10,000 feet. The round, lemon-
yellow fruits are about an inch in diameter. The tree is a prolific 
hearer and grows in alkaline soil.

56121. PRUNUS sp. Plum. From Yunnan, China. Collected by J. F. 
Rock, Agricultural Explorer. This small tree is found growing wild 
along brooks in the mountains, at an altitude of 6,000 feet. The 
globose, yellow, clingstone plums are little more than an inch in diameter, 
with firm, rather sour flesh. Introduced mainly for trial as 
a stock plant.

52390. PTEROCARPUS MACROCARPUS. From Korat, Siam. Collected 
by J. F. Rock, Agricultural Explorer. This tree known to the natives 
as Mai Padou, is one of the finest trees of Siam. It grows to a height 
of 150 feet, with a girth of 10 feet, measured 4 feet above the ground. 
The wood is very hard and is adapted for furniture and for construction 
work. The species may do well in Cuba, Porto Rico, and tropical 
America generally, but it is too tender for the mainland of the United 
States.

8646. PUNICA GRANATUM. Pomegranate. From Arabia. Collected by 
Barbour Lathrop and David Fairchild of this Department. A large and 
beautiful variety with rosy, thick skin and large, bright-red, juicy, 
sweet pulp; the flavor is pleasant and refreshing.

12566. PUNICA GRANATUM. Pomegranate. From Tunis. Cuttings collected 
by T. H. Kearney, Agricultural Explorer, on the premises of M. 
Robert, of Kalaa Srira. A variety grown in northern Africa; it has 
creamy pink flesh of medium size and very good flavor. The skin splits 
rather easily.

13298. PUNICA GRANATUM. Pomegranate. This beautiful large red 
mottled fruit has medium-sized, vivid red pulp of a sharp and vinous 
flavor. The skin is thick but inclined to split.

27049. PUNICA GRANATUM. Krylezy-Kabuk Pomegranate. Cuttings of 
a Russian variety collected by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer, 
near Sukhum-Kale, Caucasus. The fruit is of medium size and shows 
little tendency to crack; the skin is fairly thick and uniformly deep 
red; the core is medium-sized, the grains deep-red; the juicy, slightly 
acid pulp has a rich and vinous flavor. This pomegranate, which resembles 
the variety "Wonderful," should be a good shipper.

27055. PUNICA GRANATUM. Pomegranate. From Russia. Cuttings collected 
by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A variety called 
Elisavetpolsky Sladkyi, obtained from the vicinity of Elizabethpol. 
The fruits are large, with deep-red pulp of sharp, acid flavor. The 
tree is large and thrifty but the fruits split easily.

27961. PUNICA GRANATUM. Pomegranate. From Russia. Cuttings collected 
by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A variety obtained

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