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feet high, with glabrous, reddish-brown branches and broadly ovate, more or less 

 pinnately-lobed leaves. The flowers are white to cream colored and the soft, pulpy 

 fruit is. bright red to orange. The ^pecies is closely related to Crataegus wattiana 

 and C. sanguinea . For trial everywhere in the United States except the extreme north 

 and extreme south, (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 

 shrubby 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 set off by 

 lustrous leaves. For trial in all but the warmest and coldest parts of the United 

 States. (Chico, Calif.) 



82072. CRATAEGUS SANGUINEA . Hawthorn. From Chosen (Korea). Collected by P. H. 

 Dorsett and W. J. Morse, agricultural explorers, at the Arboretum of the Agricultural 

 Experiment Station, Suigen. A native Korean variety with bright-red globose fruits 

 a third of an inch in diameter, in rather dense corymbs. For trial in the northern 

 half of the United States. (Chico, Calif.) 



33214. CYDONIA 0BL0NGA. De Antequera Quince. From Granada, Spain. Obtained 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. Hardy except in the extreme north. (Chico, Calif.) 



76711. DIANELLA TASMANICA. Liliaceae. From Australia. Presented by Mrs. Frieda 

 Cobb Blanchard. Collected in the National Park, Tasmania. A Tasmanian herbaceous 

 perennial 4 to 5 feet high, with sword-shaped serrate leaves 2 to 4 feet long, a lax 

 panicle of nodding pale-blue flowers and bright-blue fruits on slender pedicels. For 

 trial in California and the Gulf region. (Chico, Calif.) 



77604. ENTELEA ARBORESCENS. Tiliaceae. From New Plymouth, New Zealand. Obtained 

 from Duncan & Davies. A New Zealand shrub or small tree 20 feet high, with the grow- 

 ing parts covered with soft, stellate, hairs. The alternate, cordate leaves, nearly 

 a foot across, are on petioles 8 inches long; the white flowers, an inch in diameter, 

 are in erect cymes, and the globose pods are covered with long, rigid bristles. For 

 trial only in regions nearly or quite free from frost. (Chico, Calif.) 



75324. ERLANGEA CORDIFOLIA. Asteraceae. From Kabiti, near Nairobi, Kenya Colony, 

 Africa. Collected by L. W. Kephart and R. L. Piemeisel, agricultural explorers. 

 Bureau of Plant Industry. A tropical herbaceous plant with an abundance of deep- 

 purple, tubular-shaped flowers in heads which resemble those of Vernonia (ironweed). 

 The stems are purple at the base and light green at the top, and are finely pubescent. 

 The alternate leaves have a soft white pubescence beneath. For trial in the southern 

 United States. (Chico, Calif.) 



78337. ESCALLONIA FLORIBUNDA . Escalloniaceae . Plants obtained from V. N. Gauntlett 

 & Co., Chiddingfold, Surrey, England. A distinct species bearing long arching clus- 

 ters of pure-v.hite flowers between August and November. For trial in the Gulf region 

 and California. (Bell, Md.) 



