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SEEDS AXD PLANTS IMPORTED. 



36998 to 37001. 



From Erfurt, Germany. Purchased from Haage & Schmidt, Received 

 January 7, 1914. For tlie experiments of the Office of Forage-Crop In- 

 vestigations. 



36998 to 37000. Holcus sorghum L. Sorghum. 

 {Sorghum vulgare Pers.) 



36998. Black. 37000. Brown. 



36999. White. 



37001. HoLCUS HALEPEXsis L. , Johnson grass. 



(SorgJiuw halcpensis Pers.) 



37002 and 37003. Phaseolus angularis (Willd.) Wight. 



Adzuki bean. 



From Wal^amatsu, Iwashiro, Japan. Presented by Rev. Christopher Noss. 

 Received January 5, 1914. 



"The adzuki used in this region seems to be identical with the sample you 

 sent me [S. P. I. No. 17851]. I found only one other sort, the white. 



" The Japanese use the adzuki in two ways. They boil them soft and mix 

 them with boiled rice and salt, making a mass called akameshi (red food), 

 which is used particularly on certain festive occasions. They also use them in 

 confections, boiling them very soft, straining through a cloth and mixing with 

 sugar in various ways. There is also an adzuki flour, which is used to make 

 the same confections, but is considered less delicious, though more convenient. 

 I should have said that in making the ordinary an the boiled adzuki are put 

 through a sieve to remove the hulls and then put into a bag and squeezed to 

 remove the excess of moisture. Brown sugars are commonly employed. One 

 variety, yokan, is made by adding kanten [isinglass, a gelatine made from sea- 

 weed] to the an" (Noss.) 



37002. Common adzuki. 37003. Yellow adzuki. 



37004 and 37005. 



From Peking, China. Collected by Mr. Frank N. Meyer, Agricultural Ex- 

 plorer for the Department of Agriculture. Received at the Plant Intro- 

 duction Field Station, Chico, Cal., January 3, 1914. Received here 

 January 8, 1914. 

 Cuttings of the following ; quoted notes by Mr. Meyer. ' 



37004. FoKSYTHiA susPENSA (Thunb.) Vahl. 



"(No. 1044. December 1, 1913.) A variety of golden bell with flowers 

 apparently larger than the ordinary sort commonly found in European 

 and American gardens. Very resistant to drought and able to stand a 

 fair amount of alkali in the soil. Of special value to the drier sections 

 of the United States. Chinese name Huang shou tan.'* 



37005. Viburnum feagrans Bunge. 



"(No. 1045. December 1, 1913.) A viburnum, flowering in spring 

 before the leaves have fully come out, bearing fragrant white flowers, 

 carried erect as round panicles. Somewhat stiff in outlines. Able to 

 withstand drought and alkali to a fair degree. Of value in the drier 

 sections of the United States. Chinese name Tan ch'un** 



