
          38282. PRUNUS ANSU. Apricot Plum. From Shantung, China. Scions 
collected by F. N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. This species 
produces a very delicious, golden yellow fruit with reddish 
blush. The fruit is about 2 inches in diameter. Seems to be 
a good shipper.

28960. PRUNUS ARMENIACA. Apricot. From Samarkand Province, 
Turkestan. Seeds collected by F. N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. 
This variety produces large, pale-yellow fruits with 
firm flesh of melting, sweet flavor. The fruit is freestone; 
the kernel sweet. Budded from selected seedling.

34265. PRUNUS ARMENIACA. Apricot. From Rome, Italy. Seeds 
presented by Dr. Gustav Eisen. This variety produces yellow 
freestone fruits of good size and quality. The flesh is firm; 
a good shipper. Budded from selected seedling.

34270. PRUNUS ARMENIACA. Apricot. Var. Crisomelo. From Rome, 
Italy. Seeds presented by Dr. Gustav Eisen. A very large, 
rounded-oblong apricot of orange color mottled with red. Flesh 
juicy, of delicious flavor. Budded from selected seedling.

33223. PRUNUS AVIUM. Cherry. Var. Garrafal le Grand. Plants 
received from Pedro Giraud, Granada, Spain. Purchased at the 
request of W. T. Swingle, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
A large variety of cherry, possibly of French origin. This 
cherry ripens about the same time as the Black Tartarian and 
is about the same size and color.

32751. PRUNUS DOMESTICA. Prune. From Langenbuhl, Switzerland. 
Obtained at the request of Felix Wenger, of Newberg, Oregon. 
This prune resembles the Italian, but is much larger. The 
tree is thrifty and vigorous.

41465. PRUNUS JAPONICA. From Manchuria. Seeds presented by 
Dr. R. J. Gordon. A hardy ornamental flowering shrub rarely 
over 5 feet high. The blush or rose-colored flowers, which 
appear with the leaves, occur in twos and threes. The fruit 
is globular or short-oblong, half an inch in diameter, shining 
wine-red.

45523. PRUNUS MUME . Japanese Apricot. From Yokohama, Japan. 
A tree resembling the common apricot (P. armeniaca) and probably 
hybridizing with it. Blooms very early, producing white 
to deep crimson, fragrant flowers. Fruits used extensively 
in Japan producing one of the sourest pickles known and 
forming part of the Japanese soldier's ration. There are 
many selected flowering varieties of superb beauty in China 
and Japan. These are seedlings from imported seeds for trial 
in experiments to determine the climatic range of the species 
or for use as a stock.

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