IXVEMORY OF SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED BY 



THE OFFICE OF FOREIGN SEED AND PUNT INTRO- 

 DL CTIUN DURING THE PERIOD FROM OCTOBER 1 



TO DECEMBER 31. 19-21 (NO. 69; NOS. ^44-2^; TO 

 546:g). 



rN'TSODTJCTOBY STATEMENT. 



Since these inventories were started, over 23 years ago, there has 

 been such a delav in their appearance in type that the plants chron- 

 icled therein were in the hands of the experimenters long before 

 thev could read the accounts of the plants which had been sent them. 



The last plant which is here recorded reached Washington De- 

 cember 29, 1921, and has still to be propagated before it can be 

 sent out: it is to be hoped that before it goes out next spring a 

 printed description of it will have appeared. 



With the exception of a small number of Chilean plants secured 

 by Mr. Popenoe just at the close of his last expedition (fig. 1), all 

 of the plants described in this inventory were sent in by friends 

 of plant introduction scattered over the world. 



The success of the Japanese and Indian bamboos in the Southern 

 States makes Mr. Hole's introduction of two forms which have not 

 hitherto been established of interest to a wider public than hereto- 

 fore: these are Dendrocalamus brandisn (No. 54429), which grows 

 to 120 feet and has thick-waHed culms, and Melocarma haccifera 

 (Xo. 51430). a low-growing form 30 to 50 feet high, which bears 

 fruits the size of a small pear. It is likely that these will prove of 

 more value in Panama. Porto Rico, and Hawaii than anywhere 

 else. 



Mr. Dunbar, who is the first in America to have fruited out the 

 half -evergreen oak. Quercus serrata^ and who considers this tree 

 one of the most ornamental of the Japanese species, sends us for 

 distribution seeds (Xo. 54433) from his tree in Rochester. X. Y. 



Dr. Gustavus Eisen. well known for his pioneer work in the early 

 days of grape and fi^ introduction in California, has secured through 

 his friend, Mr. Kouchakji, an interesting peach (Xo. 54441) from 

 Baalbek and three of the famous Aleppo varieties of apricot (Nos. 

 54442 to 54444). which can not fail to interest Califomians. 



It is a long time since we have received anything from Doctor 

 Fenzi. known to Califomians as Doctor Franceschi. and it is a pleas- 

 are to call attention to a new melon (No. 54445) which he sends in 

 from an oasis 10 miles west of Tripoli and which he remarks has 

 hardly any cavity, but is an exceedingly juicy, delicately perfumed 

 variety with greenish white flesh. 



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