EXPLANATORY NOTE. 
This multigraphed circular is made up of descrip- 
tive notes furnished mainly by agricultural explorers 
and foreign correspondents relative to the more im- 
portant introduced plants which have recently arrived 
at the Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction 
of the Bureau of Plant Industry of the Department of 
Agriculture, together with accounts of the behavior 
in America of previous introductions, Descriptions 
appearing here are revised and published later in the 
INVENTORY OF PLANTS IMPORTED. 
Applications for material listed in these pages 
may be made at any time to this Office. As they arc 
received they are placed on file, and when the mate- 
rial is ready for the use of experimenters it is 
sent to those on the list of applicants who can show 
that they are prepared to care for it- as well as to 
others selected because of their special fitness to 
experiment with the particular plants imported. Do 
not wait for the annual catalogue entitled NEW PLANT 
INTRODUCTIONS which will be sent you in the autumn 
and in which will be listed all plants available at 
that time. Regular requests checked off on the check 
list sent out with the catalogue are not kept over 
from year to year. If you are especially interested 
in some particular plant in the catalogue write and 
explain in detail your fitness to handle it. 
One of the main objects of the Office of Foreign 
Seed and Plant Introduction is to secure material for 
plant experimenters, and it will undertake as far as 
possible to fill any specific requests for foreign 
seeds or plants from plant breeders and others inter- 
ested . 
David Fairchild, 
Agricultural Explorer in Charge 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, 
Bureau of Plant Industry, 
U. S. Department of Agriculture. 
Issued January 20, 1920. Washington, D.C. 
Anyone desiring to republish any portion 
of this circular should obtain permission by 
applying to this Office. 
