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64192. MYOPORUM INSULARE. Myoporaceae. From Morocco, Africa. Collected by David 
Fairchild, Agricultural Explorer. The principal hedge plant and windbreak of the 
Moroccan coast. It stands clipping well, grows easily from cuttings, is an evergreen 
of a pleasing dark green color, will stand several degrees of frost and makes a dense 
windbreak. (Chico, Calif.) 
66300. MYRTUS COMMUNIS TARENTINA. Myrtle. From Elstree, Herts, England. Presented 
by Vicary Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens. Tho Tarentum myrtle is a small—leaved 
variety of the well-known evergreen shrub, producing numerous small white fragrant 
flowers.. For trial in the southern United States. (Bell, Md.) 
72826. PERNETTYA MUCRONATA.. Ericaceae. From southern South America. Presented by 
William Wright Smith, Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland. An 
evergreen shrub 2 to 5 feet high which spreads freely by suckers, forming eventually 
a dense low thicket. The small white flowers are solitary in the leaf-—axils at the 
ends of the branches, and the round berries, up to 4} inch in diameter, vary in color 
from white to purple or almost black. Native to the Straits of Magellan, and recon— 
mended for trial in the southern United States. (Bell, Md.) 
77842. HELLODENDRON JAPONICUM. Corktree. From Japan. Collected at the Arnold 
Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass., by Paul Russell, Bureau of Plant Industry. A strong— 
growing, broad-—spreading tree, up to 30 feet high, with smooth dark-brown bark, dull- 
green compound leaves, and panicles of green flowers followed by black fruits nearly 
half an inch in diameter. For trial as a shade tree in temperate regions. (Bell, 
Md.) 
73280. PHILADELPHUS sp. From China. Presented by Vilmorin~Andrieux & Co., Paris, 
France. An ornamental shrvb which will probably prove hardy throughout most of the 
United States. (Bell, Md.) 
74657. PHILADELPHUS sp. From Tienitsin, China. Presented by Rev. B. M. Flory, the 
Church of the Brethern Mission. A Chinese mock-orange to be tested for its ornamental 
value; probably hardy except in the extreme north. (Bell, Md.) 
58501. PICEA LIKIANGENSIS. Likiang Spruce. From China. A tree 60 to 80 feet tall, 
with long, slender, drooping, very graceful branches and brown oblong cones, found 
in moist meadowlands on the western slopes of the Likiang Snow Range at 12,000 feet 
altitude. Above this altitude it is replaced by Abies. while Tsuga occurs lower down. 
Probably tender north of southern Ohio. (Bell, Md.) 
58502. PICEA sp. Spruce. From China. A tree 60 to 80 feet tall, with long, droop- 
ing branches, found at an altitude of 9,600 feet, on the Likiang Snow Range, south— 
yvestern China. The needles are short, the cones are larger, and the scales broader 
than F. P. I. 54498. Probably tender north of southern Ohio. (Bell, Md.) 
65786. PINUS SYLVESTRIS. Scotch Pine. Var. hamatra: From Moscow, Russia.- Pre- 
sented by the Director, Institute of Applied Botany. A Russian variety of the Scotch 
pine, introduced for comparison tests. For trial throughout the northern states. 
(Bell, Md.) 
