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40013. PRUNUS ARMENIACA. Apricot. From F. N. Meyer,
Kwatsa, Kansu, China.  Wild form of possible value as a hardy
spring-flowering park tree in the cooler portions of the United States,
as a stock for stone fruits in semiarid regions, and as a hardier strain
capable of being grown north of the apricot belt proper.

33222. PRUNUS AVIUM. Cherry, var. Garrafal. From Pedro
Giraud, Granada, Spain.  Purchased at the request of W. T. Swingle,
of the Bureau of Plant Industry.  A giant cherry having firm, sweet
flesh.  Should be tried in the cherry regions of the Pacific coast.

33223. PRUNUS AVIUM. Cherry, var. Garrafal le Grand.
From Pedro Giraud, Granada, Spain.  Purchased at the request of
W. T. Swingle, of the Bureau of Plant Industry.  A large variety of
cherry, possibly of French origin.  Said to ripen in June.  Should
be tested in the Pacific coast cherry region.

PRUNUS CERASIFERA DIVARICATA. Cherry plum.  Very
beautiful, deciduous, roundheaded tree, from the Caucasus, up to
30 feet high, with nearly oval leaves, 1½ to 2½ inches long and half
as wide.  Flowers 1 inch across, solitary or crowded in dense clusters.
The most beautiful of all true plums, being almost covered with pure
white blossoms in March or April.

PRUNUS CONRADINAE. Cherry. Handsome tree, from western 
China, up to 40 feet in height, with the trunk 8 to 20 inches in
diameter, thin, pale-green leaves, and white to deep-blush colored
flowers, an inch or less across, which appear early in the spring.
It is very similar to Sargent's cherry (P. serrulata sachalinensis).

32751. PRUNUS DOMESTICA. Prune.  From Felix Wenger,
Langenbuhl, Thun, Berne, Switzerland.  This prune resembles the
Italian, but is much larger and contains more sugar.  It is locally
known as the "grafted prune."  To be tested in the northwestern
section of the United States.

33224. PRUNUS DOMESTICA. Plum, var. Ciruela de Fraile.
From Pedro Giraud, Granada, Spain.  Purchased at the request of
W. T. Swingle, of the Bureau of Plant Industry.  Fruit said to ripen
in June, and reported to be of excellent quality.

34267. PRUNUS DOMESTICA. Papagone plum. From
Rome, Italy. Presented by Dr. Gustav Eisen, San Francisco, Cal.
Fruits average 2½ by 1½ inches, often 3 by 1½ inches, elongate ovoid,
greenish yellow, darker on shaded side; fine gray bloom; very thin,
smooth skin; stalk short, one-half inch or less; seed very thin and
remarkably small for size of fruit; flesh firm, sweet, and highly
flavored.
        