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presumably will enable It to be grown in California 
and Florida; a South American black walnut (Juglans sp., 
No. 41334), of distinct value of plant breeders, the 
bark of which is used for dyeing wood the color of 
the famous vicuna ponchos; and a remarkable species 
of the papaya (No. 41339), which produces fruits that 
will keep for two weeks or more after they are ripe 
and which are as deliciously fragrant as a well-ripened 
muskmelon and of excellent flavor but tough texture. 
Although the quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa, No. 41340), has 
often been introduced into America and has nowhere yet 
found a home, it is important to get an opinion re- 
garding this plant from a keen observer and thorough- 
ly trained agricultural explorer. Mr. Cook reports 
that previous to the introduction of wheat and barley 
this cultivated pigweed was one of the two most wide- 
ly grown crops of the remarkable Inca civilization, 
that it is pronounced by a Scotchman resident there 
to-day as being better than oatmeal for a breakfast 
food, and that it appears very vigorous and produc- 
tive and may possibly be gathered and thrashed by 
machinery. 
Among the introductions sent in by correspondents 
or collected by travelers, there are several unusual 
things covered by this inventory. To Rev. George 
Campbell, the American missionary who has sent in so 
many interesting plants from South China, we are in- 
debted for a most remarkable dwarf peach (No. 41395), 
which is handled as a pot-grown tree in China and 
which he says comes true to seed. He reports that 
one small tree 15 inches high with a stem no larger 
than a lead pencil ripened five good-sized edible 
clingstone peaches. The behavior out of doors at 
Chico of a number of seedlings of this peach suggests 
the possibility of a dwarf race of peach trees of 
value as fruit producers and for plant breeding. Mr. 
Carlos Werckle, of Costa Rica, sends seeds of the 
sansapote (Licania platypus, No. 41393), the most beauti- 
ful forest tree in Costa Rica, which grows to gigantic 
size, bears an edible fruit, and produces timber 
nearly as good as the Cedrela timber of Cuba. Mr. A. 
Rolloff, director of the Tiflis Botanic Garden, who 
has sent so many new hardy plants from the Caucasus, 
presents us with seeds of the beautiful sulphur-yellow 
peony (No. 41476, recently discovered near Lagodekhi 
in eastern Central Caucasus by Mlokosewitsch, for 
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