1951 
A Shipment of Seeds from Eastern Siberia. 
During the summer of 1923 Dr. T. D. A. Cockerell, of the University 
of Colorado, made a trip to the southeastern part of Siberia. While his 
principal object was the collection of fossils, a large number of seeds 
of agricultural crop plants were obtained from the vicinity of Vladi- 
vostok, through the Maritime Provincial Agricultural Bureau, for the 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction. 
Southeastern Siberia is a region in which long, severe winters and 
short hot summers have given rise to varieties of crop plants especial- 
ly adapted to trying conditions. It is likely, therefore, that many 
plants from this region will prove of value in those parts of the 
United States where similar conditions obtain, such as the Northern 
Great Plains Area and the more elevated regions where early and late 
frosts, cold and drying winds in winter and spring, together with hot 
days and cold nights in summer, make the climate a very trying one for 
nearly all cultivated crops. 
Included in this collection of seeds sent in by Dr. Cockerell are 
nearly forty varieties of oats, more than twenty varieties each of rye, 
proso, and buckwheat, fifteen varieties each of wheat, corn, flax, and 
soybeans, besides seeds of beets, cabbages, onions, tomatoes, peas, and 
beans. Host of these are local strains with distinct possibilities. 
