= 8- 
62578. COTONEASTER sp. From southwestern China. Presented by Vicary Gibbs, Alden- 
ham House Gardens, Elstree. Herts, England. An upright ornamental shrub with small 
rounded—-oval gray-green leaves with hairy margins. Probably hardy except in the ex-— 
treme north. (Bell, Md.) 
62581. COTONEASTER sp. From southwestern China. Presented by Vicary Gibbs, Alden-— 
ham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts, England. An upright ornamental shrub with small 
leathery, dull gray-green, oval leaves with white hairy margins. Probably hardy ex— 
cept in the extreme north. (Bell, Md.) 
62583. COTONEASTER sp. From southwestern China. Presented by Vicary Gibbs, Alden- 
ham House Gardens, Elstree, Herts, England. A low spreading shrub with narrow—oblong 
bright-green leaves up to 14 inches long. Probably hardy except in the extreme north. 
(Bell, Md.) 
39557. CRATAEGUS LAVALLEI. Hawthorn. From California. Presented by Frank J. Hart. 
A hawthorn originally from France and probably of hybrid origin. It is a small shrub- 
by tree about 20 feet high with few-flowered clusters of large, white flowers having 
red disks and followed in autumn by bright orange fruits, well seteoff by the lustrous 
brown leaves. (Chico, Calif.) 
73844. CUPRESSUS LUSITANICA. Portuguese Cypress. From Bussaco, Portugal. Collected 
by David Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer. An ornamental evergreen tree up to 50 
feet high, with soft aromatic straight- grained wood. Cultivated as a forest tree 
in northern Portugal. (Chico, Calif.) 
33214. CYDONIA OBLONGA. De Anteguera Quince. From Granada, Spain. Purchased from 
Pedro Giraud. A fairly prolific variety which bears round-oblate fruits with yellow 
skin and light-yellow non~-astringent flesh good for eating out of hand. It is good 
for cooking and preserving and makes excellent jelly. At Chico, California, it ripens 
the first week of November. Probably hardy except in the extreme north. (Chico, 
Calif.) 
67553. CYTISUS MONSPESSULANUS. Broom. From the Canary Islands. Presented by the 
Director, Cambridge Botanic Garden, England. A leguminous shrub about 10 feet high 
with fragrant bright—yellow flowers in small racemes. For trial in the southern 
United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
65011. CYTISUS STENOPETALUS. Broom. From the Canary Isiands. Collected by David 
Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer. A handsome shrub or small tree, 20 feet or less 
in height, with silky~hairy foliage, and elongated racemes of bright-yellow flowers. 
In the Canary Islands this shrub is used for feeding goats. For trial in the southern 
United States. (Chico, Calif.) 
62390. DEUTZIA COMPACTA. From China. Presented by Dr. A. W. Hill, Director, Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Kew, England. A bushy shrub about 6 feet high, with dull—green 
leaves, and terminal clusters of white flowers, tinged with pink when young. Probably 
tender north of southern Ohio. (Bell, Md.) 
