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61358 to 51360. Manihot esculenta Crantz. Euphorbiaceye. 



(M. utiUssima Pohi.) Cassava. 



From Haiku, Maui County, Hawaii. Cuttings presented by F. G. Krauss, 

 superintendent of agricultural extension, Hawaii A.t;ricultural Experi- 

 ment Station, through J. M. Westgate, agronomist in charge, Honolulu. 

 Received October 1. 1920, Quoted notes by Mr. Krauss. 

 *' Tlie cassava was grown on rough pineapple land, without fertilization and 

 little or no cultivation (aside from the initial plowing under of the old pine- 

 apple stumps and one cross-plowing) to test its adaptability as a rotation crop. 

 Harvested at the end of 35 months, on June 15, at the Haiku substation for 

 the first test and at the close of a growing period of 18 months on foui* one- 

 sixth-acre plats for the second test." 



51358. Sireet white (early maturing) culinary variety. First test: 

 Clean roots per acre. 3,360 pounds. Second test: Checl: rows (no 

 treatment), average of four plats, roots per acre. 3,129 pounds. 

 Fertilized wifh 500 pounds of phosphates (half super and half re- 

 verted), average of four plats, roots per acre, 6,258 pounds. Fertilized 

 with l.O(X) pounds of i)liosphates (half super and half reverted), roots 

 per acre, 7,712 pounds." 



51359. ''Bitter red (late maturing) stock-feed variety. First test: 

 Clean roots per acre, 24,360 pounds. Second test: Check rows (no treat- 

 ment), average of four plats, roots per acre, 10,918 poiuids. Fertilized 

 with .500 pounds of phosphates (half super and half reverted), average 

 of four plats, roots per acre, 17,970 pounds. Fertilized with 1.000 

 pounds of phosphates (half super and half reverted), average of four 

 plats, roots i)er aci-e, 20,962 ix)unds. Starch recovered, IS per cent." 



51360. '' AlurtiuH Intermediate variety. First test: Clean roots per 

 acre, 7.014 pounds. Second test: Check rows (on treatment), average 

 of four plats, roots per acre, 4,326. Fertilized v\ith 500 pounds of 

 phosphates (half super and half reverted), average of four plats, roots 

 per acre, 6,920 pounds. Fertilized with 1.0()0 pounds of phosphates (half 

 .super and half revei-ted), average of four plats, roots per acre. 11.802 

 pounds." 



51361. Bambos BALcooA Roxb, Poacea). Bamboo. 



I-'rom Lucknow, Oudh, India. Seeds presented by H. J. Davies, superin- 

 tendent, Government Horticultural Gardens, through W, Bembower, Alla- 

 habad Agricultural Institute. Received October 1, 1920. 

 The large and characteristic bamboo of the Bengal villages, natives to the 

 plains of the eastern side of India, extending from Bengal into Assam and Cachar. 

 It differs chiefly from Banihos fulda in its larger leaves, which are not pubescent 



^ It should be understood that the varietal names of fruUs, vegetables, cereals, and 

 other plants used in these inventories are those which the material bore when received 

 by the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction and, further, that the printing of 

 such names here does not constitute their official publication and adoption in this coun- 

 try. As the different varieties are studied, their identity fully established, their en- 

 trance into the American trade forecast, and the use of varietal names for them in 

 American literatuie becomes necessary, the foreign varietal designations appearing in 

 these inventories will in many cases undoubtedly be changed by the specialists inter- 

 ested in the various groups of plants and the forms of the names brought into harmony 

 with recognized American codes of nomenclature. 



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