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UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE, 
BUREAU OF PLANT INDUSTRY, 
OFFICE OF FOREIGN SEED AND PLANT INTRODUCTION. 
NO. 64. 
BULLETIN OF FOREIGN PLANT INTRODUCTIONS . 
June 16 to June 30, 1911. 
NEW PLANT IMMIGRANTS. 
(NOTE: Applications for material listed in this "bulletin 
tcay be made at any time to this Office,. As they are receiTed 
they are filed and when the material 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. 
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, so far as possible, to 
fill any specific requests for foreign seeds or plants from 
plant breeders and others interested.) 
ASPARAGUS SPP . ( Convallariaceae . ) 31296-297. Fruits of 
two species of asparagus from the Thian Shan Mountains, 
Chinese Turkestan. One of climbing habit, the other slightly 
twining, and found on a sandy alkaline spot. Both of possible 
value as ornamental perennials and as factors in breeding 
resistant strains. (Meyer's introductions.) For distribu- 
tion later. 
BERBERIS SPP. (Berberidaceae . ) 31287-289. Seeds of 
three species of barberry from the Tekes Valley, Thian Shan 
Mountains, Chinese Turkestan. All tall species growing to a 
| height of ten to twelve feet, one of the species seeming to 
i do well in more or less sterile soils. The colors of the 
berries are respectively red, brown and blue. (Meyer's intro- 
ductions.) For distribution later. 
I CALLIGONUM SP. (Polygonaceae . ) 31293. Seeds from near 
Schul-Kuduk, Chinese Turkestan. "A graceful looking, small 
desert shrub, having a multitude of slightly bent, very white 
branches, which are from two to four feet in length. Occurs 
in deserts of moving sands, where it builds small mounds. To 
be tested for its sand-binding capacities in the dry and not- 
too-cold sections of the United States." (Meyer's introduc- 
tion.) For distribution later. 
