
          ANNUAL CATALOGUE 
NEW PLANT INTRODUCTIONS

Experimenters are particularly requested to read this 
introductory Note

THIS CATALOGUE describes many species and varieties 
of newly introduced foreign plants which have not been 
widely tested in this country. Our knowledge of them, 
consequently, is very limited and we cannot predict their 
behavior with any degree of certainty.

These Newly Introduced Plants have been imported because 
of some direct or indirect use which it is thought 
can be made of them. They are first placed at the disposal 
of Experimenters of the United States Department of Agriculture 
and the State Experiment Stations of the country, 
but many of them will be available to such private experimenters 
as have the necessary facilities and desire to 
test them. Since these plants must be grown by private individuals 
before their commercial value is determined, experimenters 
who test them are assisting in a very practical 
way in the plant introduction work of the country. A new 
plant industry often arises through the success of some 
private individual who proves that an introduced plant 
will grow in his region and finds a use for its product.

This Catalogue is sent to those who have qualified as 
Experimenters with the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction 
and have indicated their willingness to receive 
and care for the plants sent to them for experimental planting 
in their region. The number of plants that can be propagated 
from an introduction is usually limited, and as it 
is desired to test them over as wide a range as possible 
in order to determine their adaptability to soil and climatic 
conditions, each Experimenter is usually sent a 
single plant under any one introduction number, and often, 
because of the small number of plants available, it is 
found impossible to send him any of the particular kinds 
he asks for.

These new and valuable plants are placed in the hands 
of Experimenters with the understanding that they will be given 
unusual attention, and that the Experimenter will report to this 
Office on their behavior and their apparent value in his 
community. Not only have these Introduced Plants cost a 
great deal of money, but they also have involved, in many 
cases, dangers and hardships to our Agricultural Explorers 
sent out to find them. Nothing is more disheartening to the 
        