JULY 1 TO SEPTEMBER 30, 1913. 



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35978 to 36000— Continued. 



36993. Phaseolus vulgaris L. Bean. 



"From Angol, Chile. (Xo. 132.) A bean which Mr. Manuel Bunster, at 

 Angol, obtained from Los Angeles. Chile, but for which he has no name. He 

 considers it one of the best he has ever grown, both as to quality and productive- 

 ness." 



35994. (Undetermined.) 



"From Chile. (Xo. 136.) Half vine, half shrub, with long racemes of black 

 berries. Found at the east end of Lago Rinihue. Flowers not seen. Appar- 

 ently not common." 



36995. ViciA sp. 



"From Quilan, Chile. (X""©. 182.) This, of course, has been introduced from 

 Europe." 



36996. Pisuii ARVEXSE L. Field pea. 



" (X^'o. 183.) A variety grown at Quilan, Chile." 

 35997. Pernettya mucroxata (L. f.) G^ud. 



" From Quilan, Chile. (No. 189.) A thorny shrub with very handsome edible 

 pink berries. An excellent hedge plant." 



" An evergreen shrub, 2 to 5 feet high, spreading freely by suckers and forming 

 ultimately a dense, low thicket; young branches thin and wiry, sometimes fur- 

 nished with a few appressed. forward-pointing bristles, or short down, but usu- 

 ally becoming smooth in a short time. Leaves alternate, dense upon the 

 branches, ovate to oblong, very shortly stalked, one-third to three-fourths inch 

 long, one-eighth to one-fourth inch wide, toothed and spiny pointed, hard in 

 texture. Flowers produced singly in the leaf axils near the end of the shoot, in 

 May. Corolla white, nodding, cylindrical, about one-fourth inch long, five 

 toothed. Calyx five lobed, green ; stamens 10 ; flower stalk one-fourth inch long. 

 Fruit a globose berry one-third to one-half inch in diameter, containing many 

 very small seeds; it varies in color from pijre white to pink, lilac, crimson, 

 and purple, or almost black. 



" Native of the region about the Straits of Magellan; introduced in 1828. This 

 is one of the hardiest of South American shrubs and is rarely severely injured by 

 frost in the neighborhood of London. Certainly it is one of the finest ornamental 

 berry-bearing shrubs we have. Its berries attain their color by early autumn, 

 and remain on the branches through the winter and following spring. The 

 Pernettya was long strangely neglected, but a great fillip to its cultivation was 

 given by an exhibit in London made about 1882 by an Irish nurseryman, Mr. T. 

 Davis, who showed a number of remarkably beautiful varieties he had raised 

 during the pre\T.ous 20 or more years in his own nursery. The Pernettya is 

 about the only shrub that has been cultivated and selected with a view to the 

 beauty and variety of its fruit, apart from edible qualities. In Kew, the fruits 

 are never touched by birds, although in some gardens they are said to be stripped 

 in winter — possibly by pheasants. 



"The chief cultural requirements of Pernettya are a cool, moist bottom, and 

 a soil free from lime, with which either peat or decayed leaves or both should be 

 freely mixed. It likes full sunshine, and can be propagated by seeds, division, 

 or cuttings. The last two are best for selected varieties." (TT. /. Bean, Trees 

 and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles, vol. 2, pp. 127-128.) 



