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SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



36G73 to 36086— Continued. 



36080. Phaseolus angularis (Willd.) W. F. Wight. Adzuki bean. 

 ''(No. 1865a. San Tun Ying, Chihli Province, China. May 31, 1913.) A 



gray, mottled variety called Gh'de hsido ton. Used boiled with rice and in 

 soups. Supplies also an excellent winter vegetable in its bean sprouts." 



36081. Paxicum miliaceum L. Proso. 

 "(No. 1866a. San Tun Ying. Cliihli Province, China. May 31, 1913.) A 



glutinous variety of proso, the seeds of which are served boiled as little triangular 

 cakes, ^vrapped in bamboo leaves or corn husks. They are eaten with some 

 coarse bro^vn sugar sprinkled over them and are greatly relished by the rural 

 people of North China as cheap and nourishing sweetmeats. Chinese name 

 Shu cM." 



36082. JuGLAxs REGiA SINENSIS DC. Walnut. 

 " (No. 1868a. June, 1913. ) A large quantity of Chinese walnuts coming from 



Changli, Chihli Province, North China. Obtained through the efforts of the 

 Hon. Samuel S. Knabenshue, American consul general at Tientsin. These 

 Changli walnuts have erroneously been called Manchurian walnuts by some 

 people, because they come from near the Great Wall, and this nomenclature has 

 giA^en rise to newspaper reports that fine walnuts were grown in Manchuria, 

 There is, however, a wild walnut in Manchuria, Juglans mandshurica, which 

 grows into a stately tree, of which the wood is valuable, but the nuts are not 

 fit for human consumption. From preliminary experiments, it seems that 

 these North China walnuts are of a decidedly hardier nature than the forms 

 which occur in western and southern Eiu^ope and in northwestern Asia." 



36083. \aGNA SINENSIS (Tomer) Savi. Cowpea. 

 " (No. 1869a. Tientsin, China. June 12, 1913.) A small variety of cowpea, 



bearing small white seeds, with a dark-colored eye. Used as a human food 

 boiled with rice and in soups. Chinese name Hsiao pai eking tou or Par ton." 



36084 and 36085. Phaseolus angularis (AVilld.) W. F. Wight. 



AdzuM bean. 



36084. -'(No. 1870a. Tientsin, China. June 12, 1913.) A small white- 

 seeded bean, used when ground up with sugar as a stuffing in little cakes. 

 The sprouts are also much consumed as a winter vegetable and are of a 

 better, juicier quality than those from mung beans. From experiments 

 made at the Office of Forage-Crop Investigations, it seems as if some of 

 these oriental beans might supply very tasteful and wholesome food 

 when ground up and baked in the form of croquettes, and they deserve 

 to become much more known than they are at present. Chinese name 

 Pai hsiao tou." 



36085. "(No. 1871a. Tientsin, China. June 14, 1913.) A larger variety 

 than the preceding one (S. P. 1. No. 36084); otherwise the same remarks 

 apply to it. Also called Pai hsiao tou." 



36086. Prunus tomentosa Thunb. Bush, cherry. 



"(No. 1872a. Tientsin, China, June 12, 1913.) About 42,000 atones of the 

 Chinese bush cherry. A fruit eminently suited for the home garden in the 

 colder, semiarid sections of the United States. The Chinese usually bud or graft 

 this bush cherry on the remarkably thrifty wild peach {Amygdalus davidiana), 

 on which stock it makes a much more vigorous growth and is also better able to 

 withstand drought and adverse conditions than when left on its own roots. 

 Seeds and scions formerly sent under S. P. I. Nos. 16918, 17732, 17733, 20075, 



