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plants, which were rather spreading and low, being wider 
than high. The plant looked well; the leaves were large 
and healthy, of good color, and seemed to be In excellent 
health." 
For photographs of Litchl see Label Catalogue for 
1915-1916 and Plant Immigrants No s. Ill & 112. 
Lonicera maachii (391. ) A honeysuckle brought from Russia 
by Hansen in 1898. A cutting from original plants of this 
number, planted by Mr. Bisset in 1912, bloomed the follow- 
ing year and has bloomed each succeeding year, and now 
forms a beautiful, rapid-growing shrub with spreading 
branches and deep green leaves on the axils of which are 
borne the clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers which are 
white on first opening but rapidly turn yellow. This is 
certainly a precocious flowering species. 
For photographs see Plant Immigrants No. 74 and the 
Label Catalogue for 1915-1916. 
Rheum rhaponticum (20420.) A species of rhubarb in- 
troduced by Mr. Meyer from the Agricultural Station of 
Khabarovsk, Siberia, In 1907. We have just received an in- 
teresting letter from Mr. A. Merritt, Hollis, L. I., re- 
garding this number, a portion of which is quoted . below: 
"A little over three years ago I asked for and had 
sent to me a root of Siberian rhubarb.. This turned out to 
be a most delicious plant of a taste much more delicate 
than any other rhubarb I have ever eat.en or been able to 
secure.. Another unusual feature of it was that it is al- 
most 'sweet' enough to eat without the addition of sugar. 
We use only about one-sixth as much sugar to sweeten it as 
the ordinary rhubarb calls for under the same circumstances. 
"The plant does not seem to spread, however, as does 
the ordinary rhubarb, and I have been afraid to make any 
experiments for fear of losing the one plant that I have 
and I am wondering whether you could tell me how to prop- 
agate from this plant and whether you could send me another 
root of this same rhubarb." 
