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33218. AMYGDALUS COmiUNIS. Desmayo almond. From 

 Granada, Spain, through Walter T. Swingle. Recommended by 

 Pedro Giraud, nurseryman, as more resistant to frost than other 

 hard-shelled varieties. The peculiar attachment of the flower turns 

 it downward, and corolla and sepals protect organs and insure fertility 

 when other varieties lose their crops from frost. On A. davidiana. 



AMYGDALUS DAVIDIANA. From F. N. Meyer, Tientsin, China. 

 Important wild dry-land peach used commonly as stock for stone 

 fruits in China. Resists severe droughts and is not affected by quite 

 alkaline soils. Strong vigorous grower; hardier than the Chihli peach 

 in central Iowa; is an especially early stock in California. 



37559. AJMYGDALUS PEDUNCULATA. From M. ]M. Timo- 

 gowitch, Chita, Transbaikalia, Siberia. A bushy, wild peach, 1^ to 

 6 1 feet high, smaU oblong strongly dentate leaves, and soHtary pale 

 red flowers. A very desirable hardy shrub found in the extremely 

 cold region around Lake Baikal, Siberia, and in northeastern Mon- 

 golia. Character of fruit unknown, but may have value for breeding 

 purposes. 



40000. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Peach. A collection of cul- 

 tivated and escaped peaches secured along roadsides in the Provinces 

 of Honan, Shansi, Shensi, and Kansu, China. There may be some 

 quite new types of peach among these seedlings, and it is desirable 

 that they be fruited at various points in this country. 



40900. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Peach. From F. N. Meyer, 

 Peking, China. A small, hardy variety, with small seeds ; said to be 

 grown in the western hills near Peking. To be tested as a stock and 

 experimented with in localities north of the peach belt proper. 



AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Crosby nectarine. 

 From Rev. P. J. P. Hendriks, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. As 

 fruited in America, a juicy, good, rather thin-skinned, medium-sized 

 nectarine, suited to short, hot surmners. Not a good keeper. Like 

 all nectarines, more subject to brown-rot than the peach. Careful 

 spraying is necessary to ripen a crop. 



AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Quetta nectarine. 

 From Lieut. W. L. Maxwell. Seedling from the best nectarine tree 

 in Quetta, British Beluchistan. Spreading, vigorous tree bearing 

 immense quantities of large fruits, green tinged with red. Fruited 

 in California. Pronounced by experts to be exceptionally fine and 

 worthy of wide dissemination, because of its large size and good 

 color, notwithstanding the thin skin. Budded on A. davidiana. 



