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have tried here ever held their leaves until fall, 
while this one looks beautiful and I believe will be 
a success here. The Amygdalus persiea neetarina, Quetta nec- 
tarines have done well, leaves are free from fungus. 
Prunus domestical Papagone prune (40498) has done well, 
leaves are free from fungus." V. L. Deane, Seabrook, 
Texas, September 12, 1918. 
In a letter dated March 18, 1918, Mrs. J. Radford 
Carter, of Merritt, Florida, reports the following 
results with Persea americana: 
"We had an unusually cold February this year and 
during the severe cold, we kept our young avocado 
plants banked in sand; the old trees went through all 
right, excepting a few frosted lower limbs. Lower 
limbs of the mango were frosted also, but there will 
be plenty of fruit this summer." 
Excerpts from a letter under date of April 7th, 1916, 
from John Bracken, Prof, of Field Husbandry, Univer- 
sity of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. 
"Your communication of the 29th ult ., enclosing 
photograph of one of our plats of Medieago sativa, semi- 
Palatinsk alfalfa is to hand. This plat did particularly 
well last year. It yielded more than any of our other 
alfalfa, but, of course, the latter were produced 
under rather different conditions. The semi-Palatinsk 
you photographed yielded 10,562 lbs. green weight in 
the first cutting; 5,520 in the second, and 4,875 in 
the third. The dry matter in the first cutting was 
27.22$ of which 21.77$ was protein. A species of grass 
that we secured through your Bureau that has done 
very well here is Agropyron elongatum." 
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