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secure' seeds for us. He has agreed to send us, as soon as 
he returns to Erazil, as many as possible of the Southern 
Brazilian species of forest trees, shrubs and other useful 
plants, many of which are likely to prove hardy in portions 
of Florida, Porto Rico and the Philippines. According to 
Mr, Andrade, the most delicious fruit in Brazil is the so- 
called jaboticaba, the fruit of Eugenia jaboticaba. He says 
in addition to "being a fruit tree it is very ornamental, 
having a roundish crown, suitable as a street tree. The 
fruits are "black or blue-black in color, about the size of 
a large plum, having an objectionably large seed. When in 
flower the tree is said to be unusually beautiful, a mass of 
white blooms among the evergreen foliage. The fruits have 
a thin skin and a very sweet white pulp of the consistency 
of cream; they can be eaten in large quantities without 
deleterious effects. It is not a fruit which would bear 
shipment. It is possible that this fruit can be cultivated 
in Porto Rico and even Southern Florida. 
OHIO, Columbus. Mr. J. H, Roys has been for the past two years 
experimenting extensively with Juncus roemerianus in an en- 
deavor to discover a profitable use for this rush, which 
covers hundreds of square miles along the Atlantic coast. 
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Inventory No. 20, including Numbers 25718 to 26047, has 
been issued. Among the things of particular interest in 
this number may be mentioned a collection of seeds of rattan 
palms; an importation of Queensland nuts from Australia; a 
collection of Vicia faba from India, Egypt, Holland, Hungary, 
China, Kashmir and Spain, for experimentation by the Office 
of Forage Crop Investigations; the "Monketaan" melon from Cape 
Colony, highly recommended by agriculturists there as food for . 
stock; the Pahutan mango from the Philippines recommended by 
Mr. Lyon on account of its great productivity, its sweetness 
and juiciness and its probable good shipping qualities; Myrioa 
nagi, an interesting Oriental fruit plant; Prunus tomentosa, 
recommended as an unusually hardy cherry, for trial as to hard- 
iness of fruit bud, in the Northwest; a collection of peach, 
apricot and cherry seeds from the Himalayas; a collection of 
' varieties of tropical corn from China; a collection of oats 
from Algeria, Palestine, Sweden and Turkey, and a wild olive 
from Cape Colony. 
