28274. COFFEA ARABICA, 

 Maragogipe Coffee. From J. W. Van 

 Leenhoff, fllayaguez, P. R. 



Horticultural variety discovered in 

 Brazil as a mutation from common 

 Arabian coffee. A vigorous grower 

 but usually a shy bearer. The leaves 

 are very broad; berries larger than 

 the original type. For testing in com- 

 parison with other types of coffee. 



_ 26447. CONIUM MACULA- 

 lUM. Coniura. A rank, muck- 

 branched European herb— biennial, 

 rauk-smelling, and poisonous. The 

 finely cut dark foliage is highly or- 

 namental. It grows from 2 to 4 feet 

 high and has large umbels of small 

 white flowers. 



28784. CORCHORUS CAPSULARS, 



Jute, from Nicholas Tsu, Shanghai, 

 China. 



Annual, 8 to 15 feet, extensively cul- 

 tivated for its valuable fiber. Broad- 

 cast IS pounds to the acre in spring, 

 can be cut four months later. Requires 

 rich, moist, but well drained soil. In 

 the Southern States jute has yielded 

 three times the average amount per 

 acre in India. 



24S05. CORIANDRUM SATI- 

 VUM. Coriander. Presented by Mr. 

 Hubert S. Smiley, Drumalis, Ireland. 

 From Abyssinia. An umbelliferous 

 annual of Southern Europe, growing 

 from 2 to S feet high, with thread-like, 

 divided leaves and small white flow- 

 ers. The seeds (or fruits), are used as 

 seasoning andflavoring although they 

 are less known in this country than 

 caraway. 



26354. CRATAEGUS AZA- 

 ROLUS. Hawthorn. From Miss 

 Rifka Aaronsohn, Acre, Palestine. 

 Seedlings of a large, shrubby, spiny, 

 red-fruited varietyf ound on the slopes 

 of dry, arid hills amongst calcareous 

 rocks. A rather slow grower, bearing 

 in spring dense corymbs of fragrant 

 white flowers. Fruits of the better 

 varieties are as much as an inch in 

 diameter. 



27178. CRATAEGUS SP. 



Received through Mr. Frank N.Meyer, 

 from near Novai, Avon, Caucasus, Rus- 

 sia. A small ornamental shrub of ro- 

 bust habit; has small leaves and tears 

 small scarlet berries which hang on 

 the bushes all winter. 



