SOUTH AMERICA. Mr. C. P. Young, Manager of the Tanners 
Supply Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., expects to visit South 
„ America and offers to look up anything we want investigated. 
Inventory Ho. 17 is now printed, covering Nos. 23745- 
24429. This Inventory covers a period of three months from 
October 1st to December 31st and includes a collection of 
Chinese vegetables "brought "by Mr. Meyer from Peking; the 
Indian "bael fruit valuable as a possible new fruit and as a 
dry land stock for the orange; a new species of the fruiting 
hedge plant Carjssa from Calcutta; a new green manure legume 
from Sao Paulo, Brazil; a large collection of beans, cowpeas, 
squashes, field peas and garbanzos and some remarkable hard- 
stemmed bamboos from Chile; a number of new strains of alfalfa 
from Peru, Australia, Spain and Chile; a collection of seeds 
of the best species of grazing grasses from Rhodesia; a number 
of Syrian pomegranates from Sidon; a collection of Stizolobium 
or velvet beans from the Royal Botanic Gardens of Java; and 
many other promising plants from various parts of the world. 
We have just received from Prof. Schweinfurth of Berlin, 
addressed to Mr. Aaronsohn, samples f six forms of' the wild 
wheat, Triticum dicoccoides, grown at the Agricultural School 
at Bonn. 
