54388. "Root grafts , 'Delicious ' x 'Cox's Orange' 
cross, nearly aphis-resistant; a beautiful apple; an 
early and heavy cropper of superb quality." 
54389. "Root grafts, 'Imm's Seedling.' A large 
culinary apple, one of the very best for that purpose; 
good cropper, and aphis-resistant. A most promising 
stock; of upright growth, with very large foliage, and 
a splendid root system." 
54392. "A sport from the 'Ribston Spy ' cross .dif- 
fering only in its most peculiar color; it is aphis- 
resistant. Flavor and keeping qualities superb." 
Mangifera indiea (Anacardiaceae) , 54041. Mango. From 
Pachmarhi , Central Provinces, India. Seeds presented 
by the Superintendent, Government Gardens , through Mr. 
William Bembower, Allahabad Agricultural Institute, 
Allahabad. "Seeds of 'Pachmarhi,' frost-resistant va- 
riety." (Bembower.) 
"The Bombay mango grafts were seriously affected 
by frost each year, when grown at Pagara. The 'khuds' 
and ravines of the Pachmarhi Hills are full of wild 
mangos and it has now been found that if the Bombay 
varieties are grafted on the wild 'Pachmarhi' seed- 
lings, the resulting trees, without deteriorating in 
quality, are quite frost-resistant." (Agricultural and 
Cooperative Gazette, Nagpur, vol. 9, p. 15.) 
Oryza saliva (Poaceae), 54289 to 54292. Rice. From 
Saigon, Cochin-China . Seeds presented by M. E. Carle, 
Director, Laboratoire de Genetique, Instltut Sclen- 
tifique de L'Indochine. Notes adapted from Bulletin 
Agricole, de L' Instltut Scientifique de Saigon, vol. 
2, pp. 41, 46, 48, and 49. 
54289. 'Nam-vian, ' or 'ba sao.' A recent intro- 
duction from Cambodia, with stalks 12 feet long and 
thick heads up to a foot long. A floating rice with a 
different flavor from that of the ordinary rice. For 
the first two months floating rice grows as ordinary 
rice, but later, floods of the Mekong River, which start 
in July, gradually submerge all of the plant except 
the leaf tips. The water averages 1.2 to 1.5 meters 
(4 to 5 ft.). As the water recedes after November, the 
stalks bend down and when the lower part touches the 
ground the nodes take root. 
The stalk of floating rice is thicker than that 
of ordinary rice and is from 2.5 to 5 meters (8 to 16 
ft.) long. Only the tips of the stalks are leafy. The 
growing period is 8 to 9 months, from April or May to 
