944 
March, 1911, has become a beautiful tree and last year bore 
about 25 nuts, - this year it has a very good crop. Would 
you like to have me send you some nuts by mail?" 
We offered to buy the entire crop and she sent us one 
pound, about one fourth of it, saying - 
"I am sorry there are not more, but we have been eat- 
ing them and giving them away. Please do not offer to pay 
for them. I am only too glad to send them and hope I can 
let you have more next year, If you wish them." 
To the pound of seed received from Mrs. Bow, the S. 
P. I. No. 41472 was assigned (see page 941.) For photo- 
graphs see Label Catalog for 1915-1916, and Plant Im- 
migrants, No. 78.) 
Primus sp. (31652) The Methley plum from Natal, which 
has attracted attention there because of its earliness and 
good quality is thought to be a cross between the Satsuma 
and the myrobalan. Mr. DeVoe, of Tacoma, Washington, re- 
ports that a plant sent him February 6, 1913, has grown 
vigorously. It flowered in 1914 and in 1915 attained a 
height of six feet, and spread of four feet, and produced 
a peck of "excellent fruit." 
Mr. T. W. McCormack, of Denton, Texas, also states in 
a letter dated November 29, 1915, regarding this number, 
that a plant received by him in February of last year, has 
proved very thrifty, and made fine growth, producing 
branches over five feet long during the year. 
Reports sent from DeLeon, Texas, Vacaville and San 
Diego, California, are likewise favorable. 
t The vigorous growth of these young trees in places of 
such widely different climatic conditions, justifies the 
recommendation of a thorough trial for this plum through- 
out the United States. 
Salix sp. (22450) A Chinese willow fro.m Pau ting fu, 
which grows everywhere on the dry lands of North China, 
made at Fallon, Nevada, a growth of ten feet the first 
year. Mr. Headley, in charge of the • reclamation work, at 
Fallon, has already distributed a large number of cuttings 
to settlers on the Project. 
Zea mays (9573) Early Malcolm corn. . A selection of 
the Malakoff corn which was Introduced by Professor N. E. 
Hansen, from Russia in 1902, is the only variety which 
matures regularly in Ottawa, according to information given 
to Mr. Fairchild last summer. A very sweet variety has 
been produced by crossing this Early Malcolm with the 
squaw corn, a low growing variety originated by the Indians 
of the western plains. A cross between the Early Malcolm 
and a variety known as the Early Adams, has, in Its second 
filial generation, ripened ten days earlier than either 
parent. 
