
          Wright. The fruits of this variety are very large and handsomely 
colored, being orange and dark red. The flesh is juicy, with excellent, 
distinctive flavor.

43143. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Nectarine. Variety Muir's 
Seedling. From New Zealand. Plants presented hy H. R. Wright. A 
very large freestone nectarine of handsome appearance and excellent 
quality. The flesh is slightly pink at the pit, juicy, and of unusually 
fine flavor.

43144. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Nectarine. Variety New Boy. 
From New Zealand. Plants presented hy H. R. Wright. The fruits are 
of medium size, green, mottled with red; the flesh is red near the 
pit, and of fair quality. A very productive variety.

43146. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Nectarine. Variety Surecrop. 
From New Zealand. Plants presented by H. R. Wright. A productive 
sort, yielding medium-sized green fruits mottled with red. The 
flesh is of fair quality with a mild flavor.

41709. AMYGDALUS TANGUTICA. Tangutican Almond. From Taochow, 
Old City, Kansu, China. Seeds received from Rev. C. F. Snyder at the 
request of Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. A variable species 
of bush almond producing bitter kernels. The plants sucker very extensively. 
The species is very hardy and drought resistant and is for 
this reason suggested for use in breeding experiments.

54663. ANANAS SATIVUS. Pineapple. From Limon, Costa Rica. Slips 
presented by G. P. Chittenden, Manager, United Fruit Co. This variety, 
called locally Chocoana, is cultivated on the island of Taboga, whence 
the fruit is shipped to Panama City, Colon, and the Canal Zone. The 
fruits are yellowish green externally, weighing 2 to 3 pounds. The 
white juicy flesh is sweet and of delicate flavor. Though probably 
not well adapted for canning, it is excellent for dessert use.

51404. ANNONA DIVERSIFOLIA. Ilama. From Guatemala. Seeds forwarded 
by H. W. Goforth, American consul, at the request of Wilson 
Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. The ilama, indigenous in the mountains and foothills of southwestern Mexico, Guatemala, and Salvador, 
is one of the finest annonaceous fruits which can be grown in the 
tropical lowlands. The fruit is conical, oval or round in form, the 
largest specimens weighing about 1-1/2 pounds. The edible pulp is cream-
colored or rose-tinted, and incloses the hard, smooth, nutlike seeds. 
The flavor is sweet, resembling that of the sugar apple and the cherimoya, 
or is, in some varieties, mildly acidulous. Introduced for 
trial in southern Florida and southern California.

26565. ARALIA CORDATA. Udo. From Japan. A spring salad vegetable, very popular in Japan, which, when properly grown and suitably 
prepared for the table, is of great delicacy. The young shoots are 
blanched by mounding with earth or by covering with closed drain tiles 
in the early spring. In Nova Scotia these are available two weeks

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