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SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 



A red-fleshed, large-fruited variety of Chinese haw (No. 38176), 

 which can be kept for several months, was secured by Mr. Meyer. 

 The famous Fei peach (Xo. 38178), imported once before by Mr. 

 Meyer, but which died in transit, is now growing at our gardens from 

 additional material which he obtained. It is considered the best 

 peach in China and, because of its large size, lateness (middle of 

 October), good shipping qualities, and aromatic flavor, may be a 

 valuable addition to American commercial varieties. 



JSIessrs. P. H. Dorsett, A. D. Shamel, and Wilson Popenoe, as a 

 result of their expedition to Rio de Janeiro and Bahia, Brazil, sent 

 in scions from 24 specially studied trees of the Bahia navel orange, 

 selected because of their superior bearing capacity, uniformity of 

 fruit, sweetness, general vigor, lack of spines, and a tendency to bear 

 throughout the year. They also sent in the Select a orange of Rio de 

 Janeiro (Nos. 37796 and 37810 to 37812), a variety which has been 

 under culture there for more than a hundred years and is now, be- 

 couse of its sprightly flavor, more extensively cultivated there than 

 the navel orange, notwithstanding the fact that it contains seeds ; the 

 pear orange (Nos. 37797 and 37813), which bears in the off season of 

 the Selecta pear-shaped fruits of good quality; the bitter orange, 

 laranja da terra (No. 37775), and the seedy sweet orange, laranja 

 da china (No. 37776), both of which are used as stocks for the navel 

 orange in southern Brazil; and the lime orange (No. 37781), a variety 

 highly esteemed for ades, having a flavor intermediate between that 

 of an orange and a lime. Mr. Harry Boyle, who secured the Nakon 

 Chaisri seedless Siamese pummelo (No. 37721) , making a special trip 

 to Bangkok from the Philippines, reports that it is not always seed- 

 less in Siam. The alamoen from' Surinam (No. 37804), fruits of 

 vrhich were sent in ty Mr. James Birch Rorer, of Trinidad, is a 

 superior and very distinct variety of grapefruit with peculiarly 

 juicy, tender flesh which does not squirt when one thrusts a spoon 

 into it. The seedless pummelo (No. 37780) secured by the Brazilian 

 expedition may also be of value. 



Such citrus relatives as the desert kumquat, Eremocitrus glaiica 

 (Lindl.) Swingle (No. 37712), and Atalantia monophylla DC, from 

 India and Ceylon (No. 38511), may be of great value in breeding new 

 types of citrus trees. 



Of more strictly subtropical fruits, the following are new to the 

 United States : A wild, remarkably sweet fruit allied to the longan, 

 Euphoria cinerea Radlk. (No. 38374), from Cavite Province, in the 

 Philippines; four varieties (Nos. 38478 to 38481) of a Guatemalan 

 fruit from Coban called the injerto, Achradelvha viriclis, similar to 

 but hardier and better than the sapote; the pitaya (No. 38601), a 

 pleasant-flavored, deep-purple fruit produced by an epiphytic Cereus; 



