NO. 56. 
BULLETIN OP FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS. 
January 16 to 31, 1911. 
NEW PLANT IMMIGRANTS. 
AMYGDALUS SPP. ( Amygdalae eae . ) .29416-417. Seed of almonds from 
Mamouret-ul-Aziz (Harput), Turkey- in- Asia* Presented "by Mr. 
W. W. Masterson, American Consul. No. 29416.. Sweet. No. 
29417. Bitter. "These almond trees seem to be possessed of a 
wonderfully hardy nature, as they flourish equally well in the 
low bottom land of the Euphrates River where the climate is 
very moderate or up in the mountain table lands where I have" 
seen them growing at an altitude of 6,000 feet and where the 
thermometer registers below zero weather (Fahrenheit ) for sev- 
eral weeks at a time. I cannot say, however, whether they will 
thrive in a locality where there is much rainfall in the sum- 
mer or not, as in this country there is particularly no rain- 
fall from the middle of May until the first of November and 
irrigation is resorted to entirely." (Masterson.) Por dis- 
tribution later. 
ANDR0P0G0N SCHOENANTHUS , (Pcaceae.) 29456. Plants of a lemon- 
grass from Saigon, Cochin China. Presented by Mr. P. Morange, 
Chief of the Service of Agriculture. Introduced for the work 
of the Office of Drug Plant Investigations on the oil-produc- 
ing grasses. Por distribution later. 
ANONA SQUAMOSA. (Anonaceae.) 29409-410. Cuttings and seeds of 
sugar apple from Paget Island, Bermuda. Procured "by Mr. G. P. 
Wilder of Honolulu, Hawaii, from Miss Godet. Hardy only in the 
lower half of the State of Florida. For distribution later. 
ARISTIDA PENNATA. (Poaceae.) 29425-426. Seeds of a grass frowi 
Central Asia, introduced for trial in sand-binding work. Pre- 
sented by Prof. A. Fischer von Waldheim, Director, Imperial 
Botanic Garden, St. Petersburg, Russia. No. 29425. "Variety 
Karelini." Grown in the sand in the neighborhood of the rail- 
road at Farab Station. "This grass, itself valuable as a san<i~ 
binder, is especially valuable from the fact that its tufts 
act as shelters in which the seeds of Salsola arbuscula and 
Calligonum sp. lodge and grow. Nearly every bunch of this 
grass will be found to have growing in it a young plant of 
Salsola or Calligonum. The seeds are sown in holes in the sand 
and covered with sand by the workman's foot, or are mixed at 
the rate of 1 pound to 200 or 300 pounds of sand and sown 
broadcast; the former method is, however, preferable. It is 
sown in the hollows between the sand dunes and requires only 
one seeding, as the following year it reseeds itself." 
(E. A. Bessey.) No. 29426. "Variety minor." From Turkestan. 
