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Department last spring. It looks a little like the 
live oak. You said that it made a good hedge or a 
large shade tree. I smiled at such a combination of 
qualities, but it is true. The plants all lived. I 
cut to 6 inches and now they are 5$ or 6 feet high - 
perfect evergreen, though we have had sudden drops to 
14° P. I wish I had 10,000 of them." P. T. Ramsey, 
Austin, Texas. Feb. 8, 1917. Regarding this same 
Chilean tree Mr, A. P. Borden, of Pierce, Texas, wrote 
on July 23, 1917. "About twelve or thirteen years ago 
Dr. Galloway sent me from Washington, quite a number 
of shade and ornamental trees to try in this section. 
About the only one that survived and did well is an 
evergreen tree with a bushy top about twenty feet 
high, making a very dense shade. It is a pretty tree." 
Mr. R. C. May of Miami, Florida, in letter of 
April 5, 1917, reports: "To my surprise the candle- 
nut (Aleurite8 moluccana) , S.P. I. No. 40977, Duranta repens, 
S. P. I. No. 39458, and the Myreiaria eauliflora (Jabotl- 
caba), S. P. I. No. 36702, are living and growing well. 
The candle-nut is qui tre hardy and as cold-resistant as 
the sweet orange. The Jaboticaba is about as cold-' 
resistant as the lemon and the Duranta repens as the 
lime. I make these comparisons supposing you to be 
familiar with them. The temperature here was about 
24° F. ■ 
Medieago orbicularis (10725). Button clover ., "This le- 
guminous crop which is proving valuable in California, 
is the subject of Farmers ' Bulletin No. 730. The orig- 
inal seed was collected by Mr. T. H. Kearney of the 
Bureau of Plant Industry, from pods which he found on 
the stone pavement of the Temple of Aesculapius, at 
Lambesa near Timgad, Algeria. This handful of pods 
from a dry plant on the old temple floor has resulted 
since 1902 in the introduction of a . crop which is pre- 
ferable as a pasture plant to the spotted and toothed 
bur clovers, now used extensively, while it has prac- 
tically the same value as these other bur clovers for 
green-manuring purposes." (Falrchild.) 
Prunu8 tomentosa (36111). A Chinese bush cherry. 
These young cuttings of this number planted in 1914 
have proved very hardy at Spring Camp, Idaho, and are 
said to have made a wonderful growth. The plant blos- 
somed this spring but the fruit was killed by an un- 
usually late spring frost. 
