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40013. PRUNUS ARMENIACA. Apricot. From F. N. Meyer, 

 Kwatsa, Kansu, China. Wild form of possible value as a hardy 

 spring-flowering park tree in the cooler portions of the United States, 

 as a stock for stone fruits in semiarid regions, and as a hardier strain 

 capable of being grown north of the apricot belt proper. 



33222. PRUNUS AVIUM. Cherry, var. Garrafal. From Pedro 

 Giraud, Granada, Spain. Purchased at the request of W. T. Swingle, 

 of the Bureau of Plant Industry. A giant cherry having firm, sweet 

 flesh. Should be tried in the cherry regions of the Pacific coast. 



33223. PRUNUS AVIUM. Cherry, var. Garrafal le Grand. 

 From Pedro Giraud, Granada, Spain. Purchased at the request of 

 W. T. Swingle, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. A large variety of 

 cherry, possibly of French origin. Said to ripen in June. Should 

 be tested in the Pacific coast cherry region. 



PRUNUS CERASIFERA DIVARICATA. Cherry plum. Very 

 beautiful, deciduous, roundheaded tree, from the Caucasus, up to 

 30 feet high, with nearly oval leaves, 1J to 2 J inches long and half 

 as wide. Flowers 1 inch across, solitary or crowded in dense clusters. 

 The most beautiful of all true plums, being almost covered with pure 

 white blossoms in March or April. 



PRUNUS CONRADINAE. Cherry. Handsome tree, from west- 

 ern China, up to 40 feet in height, with the trunk 8 to 20 inches in 

 diameter, thin, pale-green leaves, and white to deep-blush colored 

 flowers, an inch or less across, which appear early in the spring. 

 It is very similar to Sargent's cherry (P. serrulata sacTialinensis) . 



32751. PRUNUS DOMESTICA. Prune. From Felix Wenger, 

 Langenbuhl, Thun, Berne, Switzerland. This prune resembles the 

 Italian, but is much larger and contains more sugar. It is locally 

 known as the " grafted prune." To be tested in the northwestern 

 section of the United States. 



33224. PRUNUS DOMESTICA. Plum, var. Ciruela de Fraile. 

 From Pedro Giraud, Granada, Spain. Purchased at the request of 

 W. T. Swingle, of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Fruit said to ripen 

 in June, and reported to be of excellent quality. 



34267. PRUNUS DOMESTICA. Papagone plum. From 

 Rome, Italy. Presented by Dr. Gustav Eisen, San Francisco, Cal. 

 Fruits average 2| by 1J inches, often 3 by If inches, elongate ovoid, 

 greenish yellow, darker on shaded side; fine gray bloom; very thin, 

 smooth skin; stalk short, one-half inch or less; seed very thin and 

 remarkably small for size of fruit; flesh firm, sweet, and highly 

 flavored. 



