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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPOETED. 



East Africa, an edible-fruited relative of the Kafir orange, S. spinosa, 

 which has proved adapted to southern Florida and of which fruiting 

 specimens are now growing at Miami; No. 34163, Antidesma Mfrons, 

 a euphorbiaceous shrub from Natal, with edible fruit, suited possibly 

 to southern Florida; No. 34177, Boscia undulata, the tree which fur- 

 nishes wood for wagon makers in South Africa, the ash of the South 

 African forests; Nos. 34184 to 34194, 11 varieties of cotton collected 

 by various field men connected with the Bureau of Agriculture at 

 Manila; Nos. 34195 to 34197, three Algerian clovers cultivated and 

 selected by Jilr. G. W. Oliver; Nos. 34199 to 34205, seven varieties 

 of mangos from Mauritius, three grafted and four wh*ich are said to 

 come true from seed; No. 34210, a species of edible-fruited Spondias 

 from San Jose, Costa Kica, which is propagated by cuttings; No. 

 34213, suckers of the famous Medjhool 'date, from the Tafilelt region 

 of southeastern Morocco, the fii^t suckers of this remarkable date 

 to be imported into this country, where thousands of seedhngs are 

 aheady growing as the result of previous introductions of the seeds; 

 No. 34214, sent by Dr. Yamei Kin, seed of a Chinese corn having 

 a waxy endosperm, similar to a previous introduction which has been 

 used in making many interesting hybrids; No. 34216, a remarkably 

 delicate, practically odorless strain of Pai ts'ai, or Chinese cabbage, 

 which has proved of unusual promise for late summer planting, owing 

 to its extremely rapid growth; No. 34219, the doum palm of Upper 

 Egypt and the Sudan, the seeds of which are employed by manufac- 

 turers in Germany as a substitute for vegetable ivory; No. 34252, a 

 native Caucasian beet from the shores of the Black Sea, for the use 

 of beet breeders; No. 34254, the Bolivian black walnut, a variety of 

 JugJans nigra which may grow in our tropical possessions; No. 34257, 

 wild teosinte from Durango, Mexico, which will interest the com 

 breeders, for it is said to cross readily with maize; No. 34259, 

 EcJiium auberianum, a new blue variety of this striking ornamental, 

 which deserves to be tested in the Southern States, its 10-foot flower 

 stems making it a most striking landscape plant; No. 34263, Bischofia 

 javanica, a remarkable ornamental tree from Java, of which speci- 

 mens now growing in northern Florida give an indication of its 

 being a desirable shade tree for that State; Nos. 34264 to 34272, a 

 collection of plums, apricots, and filberts made in Kome by Dr. 

 Gustav Eisen, some of which he beheves superior to any varieties 

 with which he is familiar in California; No. 34289, Cambodia cotton, 

 a variety which in southern India has proved superior to any Amer- 

 ican strain tried there; No. 34291, the Ta ma hemp from Hankow, 

 China, a tall-growing variety that may interest Kentucky hemp 

 growers; No. 34308, Primula forrestii, anew, fragrant, yellow primrose 

 foimd in western Yunnan at altitudes of 9,000 to 11,000 feet; No. 

 34309, the ^-^vapuru, a new plumlike fruit from Paraguay; No. 34330, 



