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of a wild peach from Annam (No. 52339), probably a form of 

 Amygdalus persica^ and seeds of a wild apple, Malus laosensis 

 (No. 52341), from the Laos country of French Indo-China. These 

 can scarcely fail to attract the attention of southern fruit breeders, 

 J. A. Kusche has collected for the Hawaiian Sugar Planters' As- 

 sociation much interesting material (Nos. 52399 to 52421), part of 

 which through the courtesy of Dr. Harold L. Lyon has come into 

 our hands. The interesting things of this collection are a new edible 

 species of fig (No. 52406) with dark crimson-colored fruits, from 

 Cairns, North Queensland, and several species of trees from Prince 

 of Wales Island, which have not yet been determined. Through Vil- 

 morin-Andrieux & Co., we have received a valuable collection of rare 

 plants, including two species of strawberries (Nos. 526T9 and 52680) 

 from Sikl^im and China and six species of the genus Eibes (No. 

 52706 to 52711), including one {R. long eracemo sum) whose remark- 

 ably long racemes of currants should make it of great value for breed- 

 ing purposes, according to E. H. Wilson, who saw it in fruit in 

 western Hupeh, China. 



. Plants for parks and dooryards, — In the selection of ornamental 

 plants for introduction attention is paid particularly to those which 

 are capable of wide popularization among people of small means. 

 Of these, the following notable ones are described in this inventory : 

 A new ever-blooming morning-glory, Ipomoea carnea (No. 52493), 

 found by Mr. Rock in Burma and probably suited to southern 

 Florida; a beautiful arboreal red-flowered cotton (No. 52384) from 

 Wat Lum, on the Menam River; Thespesia lampas (No. 52386). a 

 tree related to two species which have proved already to be promising 

 shade and ornamental trees in southern Florida; 11 species (Nos. 

 52690 to 52700) of the genus Caragana, among which is the Siberian 

 pea tree {C. arhorescens) , one of the most important hedge and 

 shelter-belt bushes of Canada and the Northwest; Rhododendron 

 racemosum (No. 52603), a beautiful species from Yunnan with small, 

 pink, sweet-scented flowers, which blooms when still small enough to 

 be handled in pots and exhibits a variety of colors resembling the 

 well-known R. vaseyi; two species of Bauhinia (Nos. 52746 and 

 52747) and one of the crape myrtle, Lagerstroemia sp. (No. 52750), 

 from Moulmein, Burma ; a collection of the small hardy ornamental 

 bamboos of the genus Arundinaria (Nos. 52670 to 52674) ; Cassia 

 nodosa (No. 52797), a gorgeous floAvering tree from eastern Bengal; 

 a species of horse-chestnut, Aescidus indica (No. 52625), which flow- 

 ers later than the European species and grows in northern India to a 

 height of 100 feet; the yellow-flowered clematis, C. tangutica (No. 

 52631) ; the yellow-flowered peony, Paeonia lutea (No. 52648) ; and a 

 collection of the famous Lemoine's hybrid mock oranges {Philadel- 



