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found varieties less susceptible to the many peach 
diseases than are those we have; and the collection 
from Saharanpur, British India, (Nos. 41731 to 41743) 
may contain such varieties. 
The search for grapes suited to the conditions 
of the Southern States and possibly capable of hy- 
bridizing with the Muscadine has brought in Vitis tiliae- 
folia (No. 41707) from Vera Cruz, Mexico, and Vitis davidii 
(No. 41877) from Central China. 
The subtropical and East Indian plum, Prunus bok- 
hariensis (No. 42057), from Simla which resembles Primus 
salicina, may play a role in the production of a plum 
for our Southern States. The Service Tree of southern 
Europe, Sorbus domestica (No. 41703), which grows into 
Such a stately beautiful tree and bears palatable 
fruits, appears to have been strangely neglected by 
horticulturists. Although already very many varieties 
of Japanese persimmon have been introduced, the ex- 
tensive collections from Okitsu (Nos. 41691 to 41702, 
Nos. 41779 to 41793, and Nos. 42138 to 42165) may 
contain some better suited to our conditions or less 
astringent than those we are testing. 
The Brazilian Expedition, sent out by this office 
in 1913, discovered in the campo near Lavras a strange 
and quite remarkable fruit {Eugenia klotzsehiana) , charac- 
terized by a remarkable fragrance. Through the kind- 
ness of Mr. Hunnicut a quantity of seeds has been 
secured (No. 42030) and the species will be given a 
thorough trial. ■ 
Solanum quitoense (No. 42034), the Naranjilla of 
Quito, with fruits the size of small oranges, which 
form the principal article of food of the settlers 
during certain seasons, should certainly be given a 
trial in this country. 
So much and such genuine interest has been aroused 
in the Japanese flowering cherry trees, through the 
gift to the City of Washington by the Mayor of Tokyo 
of a collection of them, and through the satisfactory 
growth which specimen trees have made in Maryland, 
Massachusetts, and California, that a demand for 'them 
has grown up which nurserymen find it difficult to 
meet. It is of interest, therefore, to point out that 
54 varieties from the municipal collection of Tokyo 
near Arakawa, which represent the loveliest of the 
hundreds of varieties known to the Japanese , have been 
secured through the Mayor's courtesy, and these will 
be propagated and distributed under the same varietal 
names as they bear in the Arakawan collection (Nos. 
41817 to 41870). 
