UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 
OFFICE OF FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT INTRODUCTION. 
NO. 62. 
BULLETIN OF FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS. 
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May 1 to 15, 1911, \ 
•'' ■' NEW PLANT IMMIGRANTS. 
(NOTE: Applications for material listed in this bulletin 
may "be made at any time, to this Office. As they are received 
they are filed and when the material is ready for the use of 
experimenters it is sent to those on the list of applicants 
who can show that they are prepared to care for it, as well 
as to others selected "because of their special fitness to 
experiment with the particular plants imported. 
One of the main objects of the Office of Foreign Seed and 
Plant Introduction is to secure material for plant experi- 
menters, and it will undertake, so far as possible, to fill 
any specific requests for foreign seeds or plants from plant 
breeders and others interested.) 
AMYGDALUS PERSICA. ( Amygdalaceae . ) 30482. .Cuttings of 
the Feitcheng peach from about fifty miles southwest of 
Tsinan, Shantung, China. Presented by Mr. T. B. Noal, Union 
Medical College, Tsinan. "This bears the name and may quite 
likely be a strain of the peach found and described by 
Mr. Frank N. Meyer when in the Shantung Province (No. 21989). 
It is a late variety, coming into market about the middle of 
September or October. It is reported to have such unusual 
keeping qualities, that it can be kept, when wrapped in 
tissue paper, until February. Though a cling stone it is 
luscious, sweet and aromatic, and of unusual size, reaching 
a pound in weight and is so prized by the Chinese that as 
much as 15 cents apiece is paid for it in the region where it 
is grown; every year the Feitcheng peaches are sent as a 
present to the Imperial court in Pekin." (Fairchild,) 
ANACARDIUM RRINOCARPUS. (Anacardiaceae . ) 30742. Seed 
from San Jos6, Costa Rica. Presented by Mr. C. Werokl6, 
Department of Agriculture. This Costa Rican species of 
cashew is recommended by Mr. 0. F. Cook for trial as a stock 
for the mango in Florida. For distribution later. 
ANONA SP. (Anonaceae.) 30835, Seeds from Sacikela, 
Angola, West Africa. Presented by Mr. Merlin W. Ifinnis, Ben- 
guela, West Africa. "Seeds of a dwarf Anona. I think it is 
