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33218. AMYGDALUS COMMUNIS.  Desmayo almond.  From
Granada, Spain, through Walter T. Swingle.  Recommended by
Pedro Giraud, nurseryman, as more resistant to frost than other
hard-shelled varieties. The peculiar attachment of the flower turns
it downward, and corolla and sepals protect organs and insure fertility
when other varieties lose their crops from frost.  On A. davidiana.

AMGDALUS DAVIDIANA.  From F. N. Meyer, Tientsin, China.
Important wild dry-land peach used commonly as stock for stone
fruits in China.  Resists severe droughts and is not affected by quite
alkaline soils.  Strong vigorous grower; hardier than the Chihli peach
in central Iowa; is an especially early stock in California.

37559. AMYGDALUS PEDUNCULATA.  From M. M. Timogowitch, 
Chita, Transbaikalia, Siberia. A bushy, wild peach, 1½ to
6½ feet high, small oblong strongly dentate leaves, and solitary pale
red flowers. A very desirable hardy shrub found in the extremely
cold region around Lake Baikal, Siberia, and in northeastern Mongolia. Character of fruit unknown, but may have value for breeding
purposes.

40000. AMYGDALUS PERSICA.  Peach.  A collection of cultivated 
and escaped peaches secured along roadsides in the Provinces
of Honan, Shansi, Shensi, and Kansu, China. There may be some
quite new types of peach among these seedlings, and it is desirable
that they be fruited at various points in this country.

40900. AMYGDALUS PERSICA.  Peach.  From F. N. Meyer,
Peking, China.  A small, hardy variety, with small seeds; said to be
grown in the western hills near Peking.  To be tested as a stock and
experimented with in localities north of the peach belt proper.

AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA.  Crosby nectarine.
From Rev. P. J. P. Hendriks, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan.  As
fruited in America, a juicy, good, rather thin-skinned, medium-sized
nectarine, suited to short, hot summers.  Not a good keeper.  Like
all nectarines, more subject to brown-rot than the peach.  Careful
spraying is necessary to ripen a crop.

AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Quetta nectarine.
From Lieut. W. L. Maxwell.  Seedling from the best nectarine tree
in Quetta, British Beluchistan.  Spreading, vigorous tree bearing
immense quantities of large fruits, green tinged with red. Fruited
in California.  Pronounced by experts to be exceptionally fine and
worthy of wide dissemination, because of its large size and good
color, notwithstanding the thin skin. Budded on A. davidiana.
        