APBIL 1 TO JUNE 30, 1913. 



15 



35162 to 35171. 



From Albano, Stockholm, Sweden. Presented by the director of the Botanic 

 Gardens. Received March 31, 1913. 

 Seeds of the following: 



85162. Berberis cretica L. Barberry. 



''The flower raceme of this species is usually rather shorter than the leaves, 

 the racemes generally being 3 to 8 flowered, and flower in spring. The leaves 

 are oblong, reticulated, and the spines 3 to 5 parted. The species attains a 

 height of 4 to 5 feet. Propagation may be effected by suckers or layers put 

 down in the fall; by ripened cuttings, taken at the same time and planted in 

 shady soil, in a cold frame; or by seed sown in the spring or preferably in the 

 autumn when it is fresh from the pulp. They will germinate in the open in the 

 following spring. The last-named method is generally adopted." (Nicholson, 

 Dictionary of Gardening .) 



85163. Berberis thunbergii maximowiczi Hegel. Barberry. 

 ''This plant is chiefly used as a hedge plant, and surely no worthier one 



for the purpose could be named, combining as it does a partly defensive charac- 

 ter earned by its prickles, its close, neat growth, pretty leaves, and lovely 

 scarlet berries. This Berberis is particularly effective when planted at an 

 elevation where its scarlet berries can be seen to the best advantage. At 

 Christmas time and throughout the winter, sprays of these berries interspersed 

 with hardy and other graceful fern fronds arranged in a lily bowl make a graceful 

 table centerpiece; this combination has the added value of remaining in good 

 condition for several days." (Florists' Exchange, December 10, 1910.) 



85164. Caragana arborescens cuneifolia (Dipp.) Schneid. 



Siberian pea tree. 



"By this is understood a form which has more or less conspicuously wedge- 

 shaped leaflets, short petioled leaves, and smaller fruit with seeds more or less 

 spotted, which forms a shrub only 2 meters high. The formation of stipule 

 thorns is greater, so that this form approaches C. boisii in many respects. How- 

 ever, more definite delimitation of the variety is at present questionable, 

 inasmuch as the spontaneous forms are not cleared up. The leaf texture in 

 degree of firmness and the more or less variable sharp relief of the veins appar- 

 ently vary according to the nature of the location. " (Schneider, Laubholzkunde, 

 vol. 2, p. 95.) 



85165. Eremurus robustus Kegel. 



"The finest Eremurus so far introduced, and an exceedingly vigorous plant, 

 surpassed in stately magnificence only by its variety elwesianus. It is a plant 

 one can not grow too well, for it prefers a deep, sandy loam, and appears to 

 resent soils containing any quantity of chalk or lime, such as would grow 

 E. bungei well. The rootstock has a conical crown (differing in this respect 

 from elwesianus) set in a depression of the roots, which ascend abruptly as they 

 leave the rootstock, the thongs being rigid and fleshy, not more than a dozen 

 around each crown. The leaves are deeply channeled, pale green, 2 feet long 

 or more, ascending for half their length, the tips always drooping when fully 

 grown. The flower spikes are 8 to 10 feet high, stouter than a man's wrist when 

 fully developed, bearing on the upper third a dense array of soft, pale-pink flow- 

 ers, 1^ inches across each, the petals of which are broad and rounded, the anthers 

 reddish, and the ovaries orange tinted. It is a splendid species, succeeding 

 admirably in a shrubbery clearing and other sheltered place, where its growing 



