
          then make excellent greens. Special directions for growing 
and cooking will be furnished on application.

22471. CORYLUS AVELLANA. Filbert. Var. Bysance. One of the
strongest and most vigorous growers of all the filberts. Differs 
considerably from others in leaf characters and in possessing 
a rather corky bark. Of value as grafting stock. 
Originally introduced by Felix Gillet from the Mediterranean 
region.

43992. COTONEASTER HORIZONTALIS PERPUSILLA. From China. Received through the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. A 
low Chinese shrub of prostrate habit with almost horizontal 
branches in two dense series. Leaves roundish-oval, less than 
one-third of an inch long. Flowers erect, pink, and either 
solitary or in pairs. Oval fruits bright red, one-fourth of 
an inch in diameter. A very effective fruiting shrub for 
rockeries.

49032. COTONEASTER ZABELI. From Western Hupeh, China. An ornamental shrub up to 8 feet high, with oval elliptic leaves 
and pink flowers in loose clusters, followed by attractive 
red fruits.

49072. CRATAEGUS DAWSONIANA. From Jamaica Plain, Mass. Seeds 
collected by H. E. Allanson. A small tree with spreading 
branches forming an irregular crown. Has dark, yellow-green, 
oval, acuminate leaves, and many-flowered corymbs followed 
by orange-red, yellow-fleshed, obovate fruits borne on long, 
slender, red pedicels.

41690. CUPRESSUS GLABRA. Cypress, From Sedona, Ariz. Received 
through J. F. Derrick. A tree 25 to 30 feet in height, with 
a compact, narrowly oval, somewhat pyramidal crown. The 
branches, particularly of the younger trees, are strongly 
upright, the bark is thin, smooth, dark purple-red; the trunk 
tapering, sometimes divided into several branches. Foliage 
bright blue-green.

51602. DATURA FASTUOSA. From the Island of Guam. Seeds presented 
by Glen Briggs, Agronomist, Agricultural Experiment 
Station. An ornamental herbaceous annual common throughout 
India and the East Indies. Leaves entire or deeply toothed; 
flowers 7 inches or more in length, and varying from white 
to lavender or rose.

51351. DATURA SP. From Bogota, Colombia. Collected by Wilson 
Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. This is the common tree-datura 
which was used by the ancients as a narcotic. Found on the 
Bogota mesa and surrounding regions at an altitude of about 
6,000 feet.

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