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it yields for the manufcture of sugar." (Simmonds, 
Tropical Agriculture, p. 252.) 
Tri folium panormitanum (Pabaceae) , 47597. Palermo clover. 
From Algiers , Algeria . Seeds presented by Dr . L. Trabut. 
"A clover, closely resembling T. alexandrinum , which grows 
vigorously in damp places along the coast. It is easi- 
ly distinguished by its dark green color and its larger 
leaves. This clover makes a good forage but does not 
as yet lend itself readily to cultivation. Hybridi- 
zation experiments with berseem are being carried on. 
This Palermo clover shows local' variations which should 
be studied." (Trabut.) 
Notes on Behavior of Previous Introductions. 
A letter dated June 2, 1919, fromMr. F. T. Ramsey, 
of Austin, Texas, states the following: 
"Late in the spring of 1916, we received from 
your Department 10 trees of the Methley plum (Prunus 
saliei'ia x cemsifera myrobalana) , S. P. I. No. 41652, from 
Natal. They were planted April 20, 1916, so late that 
they barely lived through that summer; and last year 
and the year before were the driest ever known in 
this country. But today the 10 trees are living and 
have a fine crop of red-fleshed, delicious fruit. 
We have tested, on our own place, several hundred va- 
rieties of plums and have larger ones ripening now, but 
this one probably 'takes the cake' for quality of texture 
and flavor among the very early plums. The trees are 
ideal in appearance, outline, and vigor. The fruit 
is borne largely on the old limbs, so that the young 
limbs do not break off easily. Jam or jelly made from 
these plums will equal in brilliancy, or color, that 
from either Satsuma or Sultan. Sultan has proved to 
have a weak constitution in our climate, and Satsuma 
does not come into bearing at as early an age, nor 
does it bear as profusely, as the Methley plum. Satsuma 
is of little, if any, better quality, although it. 
ripens at least a month later." 
Mr. Rolla Meyer, of Horse Shoe Bend, Idaho, makes 
the following report, April 21, 1919: 
Ulmus purniia (S. P. I. No. 22975) is a particu- 
larly lovely tree; mine, received in 1917, is now 14 
feet high, 2| inches in diameter, with a beautiful 
frondlike system of branches. Acer truneatum (S. P. I. 
No. 18578) stated to be 'half-hardy in Ottawa,' is 
