7. 
hard substance so that beetles cannot injure them; a new var- 
iety of cabbage from Bulgaria giving a -good stand .where or- 
dinary kinds do not grow and needing much less space than the 
-common cabbages. Intended leaving next day to go to Nikita 
to collect hardy olives and other things. (These olives have 
since been received and will be described in the next bulletin. ] 
Jan. 18 writes from Yalta, Crimea, sending seeds of 4 annual 
species of Medicagos and roots of two perennial ones. These, 
will be identified and identifications published later. 
