28274. COFFEA ARABICA, 
Maragont 
Leenhoff, Mayaguez, P. R. 
Horticultural variety discovered in 
Brazil as a mutation from common 
Arabian coffee. A vigorous grower 
but usually a shy bearer. The leaves 
are very broad; berries larger than 
the original type. For testing In com-~ 
parison with other types of coffee. 
26447. CONIUM MACULA- 
TU. Conium. A rank, much- 
branched European herb—bienntal, 
rank-smelling, and poisonous. The 
finely cut dark foliage is highly or- 
namental. It grows oii 2 to 4 feet 
high and has large umbels of small 
white flowers. 
98784, CORCHORUS CAPSULARIS, 
Jute, from Nicholas Tsu, Shanghai, 
China. 
Annual, 8 to 15 feet, extensively cul- 
tivated for its valuable fiber. Broad- 
cast 13 pounds to the acre in spring, 
can becut four monthslater. Requires 
rich, moist, but well drained soil. In 
the Southern States jute has yielded 
three times the average amount per 
acre in India. 
eo 
a 
24905. CORIANDRUM SATI- 
VUM. Coriander. Presented by Mr. 
Wubert S. Smiley, Drumalis, Ireland. 
From Abyssinia. An umbelliferous 
ennual of Southern Europe, growing 
from 3 to 3 feet high, with thread-like, 
divided leaves and small white flew- 
ers, The seeds (or fruits), are used as 
sezsoning andflavoring although they 
are less known in this country than 
caraway. 
26354, CRATAEGUS AZA- 
ROLUS. Hawthorn. From Miss 
Rifka Aaronsohn, Acre, Palestine. 
Seedlings of a large, shrubby, spiny, 
ved-fruited varietyfound on tne slopes 
of vy, arid hills amongst calcareous 
recks. A rather slow grower, bearing 
in spring dense corymbs of fragrant 
white flowers. Fruits of the better 
varieties are as much as an inch in 
diameter. 
27178. GRATAEGUS SP. 
Received through Mr. Frank N. Meyer, 
from near Novai, Avon, Caucasus, Rus- 
sia. A small! crnamental shrub of ro- 
bust habit: hassmatilleaves and bears 
small scarlet berries which hang on 
the bushes all winter. 
