
          times white-margined flowers, and small, spotted terries. Its cultivation 
is advised only in mild-wintered regions.

52307. AGATI GRANDIFLORA. From Colombia. Seeds collected by 
Wilson Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. A beautiful flowering tree of 
the Tropics, perhaps suited to cultivation in southern Florida. It 
attains about 30 feet in height, is of erect, slender habit, has 
graceful pinnate foliage, and bears large white flowers which suggest 
sweet peas. It is a point in favor of this tree that when only 4 or 
5 feet high it begins to show its first blossoms.

49746. ALBIZZIA sp. From Guatemala. Seeds collected by Wilson 
Popenoe, Agricultural Explorer. A medium-sized tropical tree related 
to the so-called mimosa which is cultivated in our Southern States. 
It has graceful pinnate leaves and bears a profusion of small yellow 
flowers. This notable ornamental should be tried in Florida and California.

51143. ALBIZZIA CHINENSIS. Seeds presented by Dr. A. Robertson 
Proschowsky, Nice, France. An attractive flowering tree, native to 
tropical Asia; the wood is used for cart wheels, cabinet work, furniture, 
tea boxes, and fuel. The foliage is valued as forage, and a 
gum suitable for sizing paper is exuded from the trunk. For trial in 
Florida and mild-wintered portions of the Southwest.

54738. ALEURITES FORDII. From China. Seeds presented by Albert 
R. Arey, Pineville, La. The tung oil tree, a native of China, is a 
handsome ornamental. It bears a profusion of pinkish white flowers 
in the spring just as the leaves, similar to those of catalpa, begin 
to appear. The seeds (not edible) yield the tung oil, or Chinese 
wood-oil, now imported from China and used extensively for the manufacture 
of paint, varnish, and linoleum, and for aany other purposes. 
When produced in sufficient quantities there will doubtless be a market 
for the seed. A deep sand-clay loam is preferred by this tree, 
but it will also grow in other well-drained soils that produce ordinary 
crops. From a tree grown from seed introduced in 1907 under S.P.I. 
No. 21013.

54727. AMPELOCISSUS IMPERIALIS. From Buitenzorg, Java. Seeds 
presented by Dr. W. M. Docters van Leeuwen, director. Botanic Garden. 
An ornamental vine from tropical and subtropical Asia, related to the 
grape, with thick, heart-shaped leaves resembling those of a begonia, 
and long-stalked clusters of deep-violet flowers. The small, spherical, 
2-seeded berries are sour but good for jelly. For testing only 
in southern Florida and southern California.

39434. AMPELOPSIS ACONITIFOLIA. From Pingyanfu, Shansi, China. 
Seeds collected by Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Explorer. This is a 
handsome vine related to the Virginia creeper, with cut-toothed 
leaves and yellow berries. It is valued as a porch and pergola vine 
on account of its rapid growth and comparative hardiness.

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