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uses are known it will become quite a fruit In this 
section of the country. We preserved some this season 
by boiling in sugar water. To prepare for preserving 
dry out and reboil, dry and reboil, and then dry. After 
drying, they were placed in a form and pressed into a 
package resembling dates. They are as good to eat as 
cured dates. 
INVENTORY OF SEEDS AND PLANTS IMPORTED. 
Owing to the war demands upon the government 
printing funds, it has been necessary to suspend tem- 
porarily the publication of the inventories of seeds 
and plants, which under normal conditions should ap- 
pear every three months. There are now prepared sev- 
veral of these inventories which have been ready for 
the printer for many months. 
While It is out of the question to publish these 
inventories in Plant Immigrants, it does seem advis- • 
able to reproduce here the brief Introductory State- 
ments to these inventories which direct attention to 
the more important introductions. One of these state- 
ments will appear in each issue of Plant Immigrants. 
Introductory Statement to Inventory No. 46, covering the period 
from January 1st to March 31st, 1915. 
This Forty-sixth Inventory of Seeds and Plants 
shows the effects of the great war which has narrowed 
down the avenues of shipping and closed up countries 
from which many, valuable plants were being secured 
through correspondence. It has delayed shipments to 
such an extent that it has not been practicable, in 
many instances, to arrange for the shipping from far 
interior points In India and China of anything more 
perishable than seeds. Furthermore, during the period 
covered by this inventory, no official agricultural 
explorer was in the field so that the descriptions are 
all of material sent in by correspondents or collabo- 
rators . 
The most interesting of the introductions , judged 
before they are tested, appear to be the following; 
Thirty-five selected varieties of wheat (Nos. 
42102 to 42136), the result of much work of selection 
and acclimatization by the plant breeders of Victoria, 
some of them being of late foreign introduction into 
Australia while others are selections from types of 
old Australian wheats. These were supplied by Mr. A. 
