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severe frost, renews Itself within a short time. Last 
winter, in sheltered situations, it endured zero tem- 
perature without injury. Here in Oregon it roots free- 
ly from hardwood cuttings in open ground when put in 
during November or December." (Gothard.) 
A Himalayan bush, 6 feet high, allied to our Vi- 
burnums. The pink flowers backed by red bracts, are 
borne in dense sprays at the end of fresh wood shoots. 
Lilium nepalense (Liliaceae), 52925. Lily. From Oota- 
• camund, Bombay Presidency, India. Bulbs presented by 
Mr. F. H. Butcher, curator, Government Botanic Garden 
and Parks. A magnificent species of striking beauty, 
1 to 3 feet high; it bears nodding bell-shaped flowers 
of a beautiful soft yellow, the lower half of the 
gracefully recurved segments being blotched with bright 
purple-brown and shaded with maroon. (Adapted from 
Journal of Horticulture and Home Farmer, 3dser.,vol. 
54, p. 348. ) 
Malus laosensis (Malaceae), 52900. From Nice, France. 
Seeds presented by Dr. A. Robertson Proschowsky , Jardin 
d' Acclimatation. Seeds of an interesting species of 
apple found growing wild on the high plateaus of Indo- 
china at Tranninh at an altitude of 1,500 m. and also 
on certain mountains of the Tonking. It is a large 
tree which produces fruit similar in shape, color, 
and flavor to certain cider pears of Normandy. A drink 
has been made of it, the color of which recalls the 
Normandy pear cider. Although this species grows in 
the dense forest and Is uncared for by the mountain 
people now, it may have been cultivated and improved 
in the past. (Adapted from Comptes Rendus Hebdoma- 
daires des Seances de L'Academie des Sciences, vol. 
170, p. 1129. ) 
Passiflora restieulata (Passif loraceae ) , 53180. From 
Ibarra, Ecuador. Seeds collected by Mr . Wilson Popenoe , 
agricultural explorer. "No. 58 a. 'Granadilla de hue- 
so.' A good passiflora with fruits about an inch and 
a half in diameter, perfectly round, and so hard that 
one must crack them with a hammer,- or a stone. They 
are just about as hard as the thin-shelled English 
walnuts grown in California. The fruit is of about 
the same flavor as that of Passiflora edulis." (Popenoe.) 
Pleiogynium solandri ( Anacardiaceae ) , 52897. Burdekin 
plum. From Kulara, Queensland. Seeds presented by Mr. 
