Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported, Edicions 61-70The Department, 1922 |
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abundant Africa Agricultural Explorer altitudes Ambato Anglo-Egyptian Sudan avocado bean Belgian Kongo BERBERIS berries Botanic branches China clusters color Common bean Cucurbitaceæ cultivated David Fairchild Department of Agriculture eaten Ecuador edible Elizabethville Fabaceæ February feet high feet in height flavor flesh Flora Florida foliage forest fruits glabrous grass green grown grows H. L. Shantz hardy Herb HOLCUS SORGHUM inches in diameter inches long India January July kafir Kindu Kongo Kongolo leaflets leaves Malaceæ MALUS meters Mongalla Province native Nyanza Nyanza Province October ornamental palm panicles perennial PHASEOLUS Poaceæ pods Popenoe presented by Dr previous introduction purple Pyrus Quoted notes racemes Received April Received June region Rejaf ROSA Rosacea Rosaceæ RUBUS SACCHARUM OFFICINARUM SATIVA SEED AND PLANT Seeds collected Seeds presented shrub slender small tree soil Solanaceæ SOLANUM Sorghum southern species stems tall tropical tubers Urundi variety vulgare white flowers wild Wilson Popenoe yellow flowers
Passatges populars
Pàgina iii - ... could well be, but it is only when the fruit is opened that its real beauty is seen. The rind is thick and tough and in order to get at the pulp inside, it requires a circular cut with a sharp knife to lift the top half off like a cap, exposing the white segments, five, six or seven in number, lying loose in the cup.
Pàgina 84 - This covering is a fat or tallow, and is removed by steaming and rubbing through a bamboo sieve having meshes sufficiently small to retain the black seeds. The fat is collected and melted ; afterwards it is moulded into cakes, in which state it is known as the " Pi-yu
Pàgina 61 - ... acute or awn-pointed, 5 to 7 nerved, usually very villous.— In maritime sands, Greenland and Labrador to Maine, Alaska to California, and on the shores of the Great Lakes. (Europe and Asia. ) July, August. This grass is one of the best species known for binding drifting sands, and in northern Europe it has been cultivated with beach-grass (Ammophila amwm'a) for this purpose, the two species forming an admirable combination.
Pàgina 7 - ... or manure crop, the sword bean is a well-known human food. The sword bean is commonly cultivated as a vegetable in Japan, India, Burma, Ceylon, Java, Mauritius, and apparently in Africa. In India it is eaten both by the natives and by Europeans, the variety with white seeds being the most esteemed. The young pods are prepared after the manner of snap beans and are well flavored and wholesome. Firminger considers it " about the nicest of all the native vegetables
Pàgina 63 - ... annually exported. I have not been able to learn the origin of this variety, which is cultivated only at Jaffa, In form it is very similar to the Malta orange, and it is possible that it is remotely descended from that variety; but it is not a blood orange, despite its marked affinity to that group. The Jaffa orange is one of the largest, larger even than the Washington Navel. Its form is obovate, its skin very thick, and its fruit seedless. The tree is not spiny, and the fruit, therefore, is...
Pàgina 7 - Indian variety with red seeds and red flowers has proved very satisfactory as a cover crop in Porto Rico. Cattle are said to graze on the plant there to a limited extent. The plant will develop full-grown green pods as far north as Washington, DC, but ordinarily the season is not long enough for the seeds to ripen.
Pàgina 66 - ... longer than broad, and open into four scales or segments, each having a spur-like knob at its apex, and covering five or six winged seeds. The foliage is of the usual juniper-like description, and the timber is of a dull reddish white colour, of excellent quality and easily worked. The bark on old trees is of great thickness, consisting of layers annually shed and renewed. I selected sections of this valuable timber tree, which I hope to send home with the other Milanji specimens by an early...
Pàgina 33 - This delicious fruit is about the size of a mandarin orange, round and slightly flattened at each end, with a smooth, thick rind, rich redpurple in color, with here and there a bright, hardened drop of the yellow juice which marks some injury to the rind when it was young. As these...
Pàgina 17 - For fifteen years or more the writer has used 0. azarolus as a stock for pears with excellent results. Top-grafted at 2 to 3 feet above the ground, it develops into a very beautiful, productive, and long-lived dwarf tree, provided the grafting is done with a very early variety. This shrub grows in extremely hot, dry places and must therefore complete the greater part of its 'development early in the season. Its roots, therefore, are unable to furnish the sap necessary to develop pears in August....
Pàgina 28 - ... section of the trunk of a young balsa tree, Ochroma lagopus, a squared piece of balsa timber, and an ice-cream container made of this recently developed wood to demonstrate its value as a nonconductor of heat. The utilization of the wood of this quick-growing tropical American tree has been brought into prominence during the last few years. The manufacture of buoyancy and insulation products, such as life rafts, refrigerators, and parts of lifeboats and airplanes, especially in connection with...