10. 
TR I FOLIUM SUAVEOLENS. 26135. From Tashkent, Turkestan. Pur- 
chased from Dr. Richard Schroder, Director Chief Agricultural 
Experiment Station, at the suggestion of Prof. N. E. Han- 
sen. Received Oct. 23. "In Persia the schalodar seed usu- 
ally is sown in the fall, not too late. It endures the 
winter quite well. By sowing in the fall it develops in 
the spring so quickly that the first cutting is ready before 
the first cutting of alfalfa. According to information 
obtained in Persia the schabdar endures several years. 
This lot is of a new variety which endures from five to 
seven years. The fact that this plant is perennial con- 
flicts with "botanical statements that it is an annual. In 
Persia the fresh shoots of the schabdar are also used for 
salad. The flowers are visited by bees." (Schroder.) 
For immediate dirtribution . 
TRITICUM. 25968-26029, 26079-097. Eighty-one varieties of 
wheat grown on the Department's Co-operative Grain Investi- 
gation Farms at Modesto and Davis. California. Received 
September 27 and Oct. 6, 1909. In addition xo these num- 
bers there are Triticum spelta (spelt), No. 26098, and 
TRITICUM DICOCCUM (Emmer), No. 26099. These are all care- 
fully selected grains. For immediate distribution. 
ZIZYPHUS SATIVA. 26109. Chinese dates from Chekiang province, 
China. Presented by Mr. J. H. Judson, Hangchow, China. 
"I cannot say whether these "plants are of a named variety 
or not. The Chinese have three kinds in the market which 
they call red, black and honey dates." (Judson.) For 
distribution later. 
NOTES FFOM OUR AGRICULTURAL EXPLORER, MR. MEYER. 
Mr. Meyer, who has started on an exploring tour through 
Central Asia, but who was directed to visit the French nur- 
series te study crowngall on paradise stocks, writes from 
Angers, France, regarding several interesting things he has 
found while making the investigation. In the Arboretum of Mr. 
Philippe L. de Vilmorin at Verrieres le Buisson there is a 
single specimen of a fastigiate mulberry (Morus alba, var . fas- 
tigiata) which is quite rare and may be of value in our south- 
ern states as a pyramidal tree. Here also is Pinus armandii, 
a new, rather dwarfed pine from Western 
