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which might be grown above the natural cane belt in the South 

 and be useful for fodder, if not for sirup production. Whether 

 or not an Italian rye-grass (No. 37709) of especially early-maturing . 

 habit, selected from single plants by the Royal Agricultural Society 

 of Denmark, a meadow fescue (No. 37710) very resistant to the rust 

 (Puccinia), and the orchard-grass variety " Olsgaard " (No. 37711), 

 all from Copenhagen, will thrive in this country, where climatic 

 conditions are so different, is a question to be determined by trial. 

 With the exception of the Algaroba of Hawaii (Prosopis), forage 

 trees seem to have made little progress in agriculture in the United 

 States, and it is consequently a question whether the Jua tree of the 

 oaatinga land around Joazeiro, Brazil (No. 37923), a species of 

 jujube, the leaves and the fruits of which are eaten by stock, will 

 make a place for itself in this country. 



NUT-BEARING TREES. 



Two nut-bearing trees, the galo, Anacolosa luzoniensis Merrill 

 (No. 38395), a Philippine species from the mountains of Cavite, 

 with a kernel having the flavor of corn, and the k'uei li tzu (No. 

 37799). a superior large-fruited form of the blight-resistant Chinese 

 chestnut, Castanea mollissima Blume, which Mr. Meyer found south 

 of Sianfu, Shensi, are described in this inventory. 



TIMBER, SHELTER-BELT, AND SHADE TREES. 



Of trees for timber, windbreak, or shade purposes the following 

 will be of interest: The true Catalpa hungei C. A. Meyer, first 

 introduced in 1905 from Peking by Prof. Sargent, of the Arnold 

 Arboretum, coming in through Mr. Meyer from Shansi (No. 38254), 

 where, as he reports, it grows 100 feet in height and 10 to 15 feet in 

 circumference, being planted by the Chinese for its strong, light, 

 durable wood, which somewhat resembles black walnut in appear- 

 ance, and another introduction of Catalpa hungei (No. 38419) from 

 the Caucasus, where presumably it has been introduced from China ; 

 a quick-growing form of white poplar, Populus tomentosa Carr. 

 (No. 38255), much planted by the Chinese for its timber; Fortune's 

 Paulownia (No. 38184), which is used in China on sandy land as 

 a soil binder and windbreak and produces very light wood; a 60- 

 foot Himalayan birch, Betula utiJis D. Don (No. 38287), which, 

 though not hardy in Great Britain, may thrive in this country, where 

 we have inore sunlight; an English elm, ZJlmiis hollandica vegeta 

 (No. 38492), of very vigorous, rapid growth, attaining 100 feet in 

 height, a hybrid between Ulmus glabra Miller and U. scahra Miller, 

 an old specimen of which may be seen at Mr. Walter Hunniwell's 



