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great interest in the garden, especially since it is so seldom seen 
in this country. Although the flowers last but a short while, there 
is a succession in a mass planting of them which prolongs the display 
of yellow, orange, scarlet and Various combinations of red as satisfac- 
torily as many more durable species. 
"The 'tiger flower' is adapted to the same situation in the garden 
as the gladiolus, is similarly handled and as easily grown. The species 
deserves much more extensive culture than it is receiving. While it 
can be treated like the gladiolus in cold climates, it thrives best 
when planting or transplanting of the stocks takes places in the fall; 
in other words, where there is no danger of the corms being injured by 
low winter temperatures." 
tumion fargesii (Taxaceae), 58600. From Yunnan, China. Seeds 
collected by J. F. Rock, Collaborator of the Bureau of Plant Industry. 
"(October, 1923.) A tree 100 to 150 feet tall, with a trunk 4£ feet 
in diameter and huge descending branches, which grows rarely in the 
deciduous and semideciduous forests of the Mekong-Yangtze Divide, 
and also more commonly on the Mekong- Salwin Divide at an altitude of 
10,000 feet. The fruits are the size of small walnuts. The tree pre- 
fers rich black soil and considerable rainfall." (Rock.) 
viburnum 8pp. (Caprifoliaceae) . From Elstree, Herts, England. 
Seeds presented by Hon. Vicary Gibbs, Aldenham House Gardens. 
58622. viburnum DASYANTHUM. A hardy ornamental shrub about 7 
feet high from the mountains of western Hupeh, China, where it grows 
at altitudes of 4,000 to 9,000 feet. The narrow, toothed leaves are 
dark metallic green above, paler beneath, and prominently veined. The 
flowers are in lax panicles, and the small red berries make the shrub 
a striking object of beauty in the fruiting season. 
58623. VIBURNUM PHLEBOTRICHUM. A deciduous shrub, native to Japan, 
which is very similar to Viburnum wrightii, from the same country. It be- 
comes 6 to 10 feet in height, with rather small, narrowly oval, bright- 
green leaves, white flowers produced in cymes 2 to 4 inches across, and 
roundish red berries which give the shrub a very attractive appearance. 
Two Recent Explorations 
Dr. Harry V. Harlan, agronomist in charge of barley investigations, 
Office of Cereal Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry, returned to 
Washington recently after a 12-months 1 trip through India, northern 
Africa, and Spain, where he went in search of cereals which may prove 
of use in improving varieties grown in this country. 
The last half of March and the month of April, 1923, were spent in 
Algeria and Tunis in the hope of finding original types which were 
brought into California through the early Spanish missions. Since much 
seed has been introduced into these countries from America, however, 
it was decided that types resembling more closely the original stock 
might be found elsewhere. On the northern plateau of Spain several 
