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26503. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTRINA.  A large, freestone 
nectarine from E. Cotes, Simla, India.  Said to have come
from Chinese Turkestan.  Fruit creamy yellow, with red blush.
Flesh creamy white, red at stone. Juicy, crisp, subacid, and of very
good quality.  Skin rather tough, but parts readily from the flesh.
A good shipper.

29227. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA.  Nectarine.
From F. N. Meyer, Samarkand, Russian Turkestan. A yellow, mid-season, clingstone nectarine of medium size. The meat is very firm
and of medium sweet taste.  Especially fit to be grown in arid or
semiarid regions under irrigation.

30648. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Nectarine.
From F. N. Meyer, Guma, Chinese Turkestan.  A small, late nectarine 
with white fruits.  Said to have fresh, sweet taste, and to
possess good keeping qualities.  Especially fit to be grown in arid
or semiarid regions under irrigation.

39428. AMYGDALUS sp. Wild peach.   From F. N. Meyer,
Shensi, China. A wild peach from the mountains south of Sianfu,
China.  Fruits small, hard, sourish, apparently freestones, red or
white fleshed, scarcely edible, but possessing real peach flavor.  This
may be the progenitor of the cultivated peach and as such should
prove especially interesting to breeders.

40001. AMYGDALUS sp. Wild peach. Seedlings from seeds
purchased on the streets of Sianfu, Shensi, China, by F. N. Meyer. A
low, bushy form of spreading habit when wild, but sometimes a 20-
foot tree when cultivated. Leaves much smaller, darker green, and
more slender than those of the cultivated peach. Varieties appear
free from disease and prolific; fruit small; used successfully as a stock
and as an ornamental.

40864. MIYGDALUS sp.  Wild peach.  From Camillo Schneider, 
Lichiangfu, China.  Semiwild form, with yellowish fruits.  Comes
from moderately severe climate and may be a new form.  Has not
yet fruited in America.

ANNONA CHERIMOLA.  Cherimoya.  Medium-sized shrub or
dwarf tree, with evergreen foliage and small yellowish flowers.
Fruits roundish, conical, or heart-shaped, 3 to 6 inches in diameter,
with pleasantly flavored, sweetish pulp of the consistency of ice
cream, with black seeds irregularly embedded in it.
        