
          This pear ranks with the best in quality, size, and uniformity 
of shape. Grafted plants.

30352. PYRUS SEROTINA. Pear. Var. Nanshi'pt. From Karawag, 
Chinese Turkestan. Cuttings collected by F. N. Meyer, Agricultural 
Explorer. The fruits of this variety are small, oval, 
and slightly flattened at the ends, green, sometimes splotched 
with red, with crisp sweet flesh. A remarkably juicy variety 
and a good keeper and shipper. Apparently very resistant 
to the blight. Will stand intense hot weather.

52211. RHAMPHICARPA FISTULOSA. From Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. 
Seeds collected by Dr. H. L. Shantz, Agricultural Explorer. 
This plant, which somewhat resembles a larkspur, produces 
white flowers three-fourths of an inch across. May prove 
valuable as an annual border plant.

44544. ROSA BANKSIAE NORMALIS. From Western China. Presented 
by the Superintendent, La Mortola Botanic Gardens, Ventimiglia, 
Italy. E. H. Wilson saw trees in China 50 feet high completely 
festooned with this rose. The fragrant, pure white flowers 
and abundant red fruits make it most attractive. The bark of 
the root is used locally for strengthening fishing nets and 
dyeing them brown.

39593. ROSA ODORATA GIGANTEA. Presented by E. D. Sturtevant, 
of Hollywood, Calif. The Giant Rose of Burma. As grown in 
Burma under cultivation in vegetable mould underlain with 
limestone, where it got plenty of water and was shaded, it 
covered, according to Hildebrand who grew it there, a clump 
of trees 50 feet tall. When in bloom it looked like a sheet 
of white, and filled the air with its perfume. Its white 
flowers reach a diameter of 6 inches. Deserves special trial 
in tropical regions, and also where tea roses do well; since 
hybrids are reported, plant breeders may find it useful.

49332. RUBUS GLAUCUS. From Tactic, Guatemala. Seeds collected 
by Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. Native name "Tokan 
uuk." Considered by Popenoe the most remarkable Rubus of the 
Verapaz region and one which seems to possess unusual promise. 
The fruits resemble a loganberry in character but their flavor 
is more nearly that of a red raspberry. They are often 
an inch in length, and vary in shape from round to oblong. 
They are produced on short laterals. The plant likes a heavy 
soil and plenty of moisture. Deserves the attention of plant 
breeders.

49333. RUBUS URTICAEFOLIUS. From Tactic, Guatemala. Seeds 
collected by Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. Native 
name "Tokan yak." A wild blackberry abundant in the Guatemalan 
highlands at altitudes of 3,000 to 5,000 feet. A robust 
and vigorous species forming a compact bush up to 15 feet in

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