INVENTORY OF SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED 

 BY THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT 

 INTRODUCTION DURING THE PERIOD FROM JULY 

 1 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1912 (NO. 32; NOS. 34093- 

 34339)/ 



INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT. 



This inventory covers a period during which no agricultural 

 explorer was in the field and all the collections were made either 

 by collaborators, American diplomatic or consular officials, repre- 

 sentatives of other nations, or interested amateurs who are scattered 

 over the world and who send in on their own initiative seeds of the 

 plants which interest them and which they believe may prove to be of 

 value to this country. 



The most interesting introductions included in this inventor}^, so 

 far as one can judge from the descriptions received with them, may 

 be summarized as foUows: 



No. 34131, a small-fruited variety of peach from Guadeloupe, 

 French West Indies, sent by Mrs. F. T. F. Du Mont, which has more 

 perfume and savor than the Florida peento; No. 34132, Sorhus tian- 

 schanica, from central Asia, a shrub or small tree suited to the cool 

 semiarid regions of the United States; No. 34134, Prunus sihirica, 

 a species related to the apricots of eastern Siberia, to be used for 

 breeding purposes; Nos. 34140 to 34145, six species of junipers from 

 Russian Turkestan, for use in afforestation work in the arid West; 

 No. 34147, Medicago coronata, from Jerusalem, a species found on 

 rocky mountain sides, which reseeds with ease, for use in extensive 

 breeding experiments being carried on at various places throughout 

 the country; No. 34153, Carissa ovata, from New South Wales, a 

 drought-resistant species with small fruit, which will interest the 

 hundreds of Florida planters who are growing the Carissa grandi- 

 flora; No. 34156, a species of Omphalea, a tree of the Euphorbiaceae, 

 which bears edible nuts, sHghtly resembling the cob nut, according 

 to the literature; No. 34157, Persea lingue, from Chile, a possible 

 stock for the avocado; No. 34161, Strychnos gerrardi, from Portuguese 



> A record of new or little-known seeds and plants, procured mostly from abroad, for distribution to 

 experimenters in appropriate locations throughout the United States and its possessions. 



This inventory is intended for distribution to the agricultural experiment stations and to the more 

 important private cooperators. 



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