Inventory of Seeds and Plants Imported, Edicions 31-40The Department, 1914 |
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Africa altitude American consul Arequipa Bahia Bolivia Botanic Gardens Brazil Bureau of Plant calyx cherimoya Chihli Chihli Province Chile China Chinese name CITRUS color crop cultivated Cuzco Department of Agriculture Diospyros Diospyros kaki Distribution.-A Dorsett edible evergreen Fabaceæ February feet high flavor flesh Florida flowers foliage fruit grass green growing grown height Himalayas HOLCUS SORGHUM inch in diameter inches long India Introduction Field Station Inventory jaboticaba jujube leaves meters Meyer Minas Geraes mountain Muskmelon native navel orange ornamental Oruro palm papaya persimmon Peru PHASEOLUS Philippine Plant Industry Plant Introduction Field Plants Imported Poaceæ Popenoe Presented by Dr previous introduction Prunus Quoted notes racemes Received April Received August Received June region Rio de Janeiro SATIVA Seeds and Plants Selected from Wight's Shensi shih tzu shrub Shrubs Hardy SINENSIS soil Sorghum South species stalk sweet tzŭ variety W. J. Bean wild Wilson wood yellow
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Pàgina 14 - The leaves are small and bright green and the flowers are white, but quite inconspicuous. Unlike most of the dogbanes, this little bush produces a very pleasant fruit which is both agreeable and wholesome. It is like a Sloe, eggshaped and about half an inch long. It exudes a viscid milky juice and contains a few woody seeds. Some persons are afraid to indulge in these berries, no doubt owing to the bad character of the order, which contains some of the most poisonous plants known. I can however testify...
Pàgina 79 - ... about 19 mm. in diameter; embryo divided into 4 or 5 thick fleshy lobes. The wood is very light and soft and takes fire readily from a flint and steel. It has been used in Guam for making canoes, but they soon become water-logged and useless if unpainted and left exposed to the weather. The bark, seed, and young leaves are slightly purgative, and the juice of the leaves is a depilatory, destroying hair without pain.
Pàgina 33 - November. 1918, we had listening posts along the front lines held by the troops. These were connected by wire and radio with the antiaircraft positions, which were the next echelon behind the listening posts. Behind these was the line of searchlights, and behind the lights a constant patrol of pursuit aviation...
Pàgina 6 - Farm, in 1908, by Mr. AC Dillman, of the Office of Alkali and Drought Resistant Plant Breeding Investigations.
Pàgina 47 - ... (35 to 55 centimeters) in diameter. Furnishes a moderately hard and heavy wood, fine and compact in texture. The sapwood is very light red with darker lines, while the heart is brownish red, brown, or on account of the knots, almost black. It is susceptible of a very high polish. Specific gravity, 0.909. It is one of the best and most valued woods of these countries, very strong and durable, suitable for carpenters and cabinetwork, and it is exported to some extent. The bark is rough and ash-colored,...
Pàgina 43 - A leguminous tree of 15 to 20 meters beset with short, conical spines: flowers red. Cultivated as a shade tree for coffee and reported from numerous localities in Pt irto Rico. It is a native of the lower Andes of Peru. (Urban, Symb. 1: 327.) Erythrina umbrosa. BUCARE. MADRE DE CACAO. Also called "bois immortelle" and "madre de cacao
Pàgina 80 - The leaves, which are of a light-green color, are about 4 to 5 inches long by 1J inches broad toward the base, but tapering upward into a long sharp point with edges cut into saw-like teeth, the two teeth next the stalk being prolonged into bristle-like points.
Pàgina 26 - The jackbean is a native of the West Indies and the adjacent mainland. In Jamaica, whence it first became well known, it is called the horse bean or the overlook bean. In this country it has been designated the Pearson bean, and recently the Wonder bean. Owing to confusion with the similar species cultivated in Japan, China and India, it has also been called the sword bean and the knife bean, but those names properly belong to the Asiatic species (Canavalia gladiata...
Pàgina 31 - C. it soften, and becomes plastic like gutta-percha, but not so sticky, provided it has been previously wetted in water. In its natural state it has neither taste nor odor, but evolves an odor like that of wax when heated, and evinces a characteristic taste on being masticated. It is quite insoluble in water, either hot or cold. The greater part of it is soluble in cold alcohol, and a considerable portion of the remainder in hot alcohol, and by treating it with these solvents in succession it may...
Pàgina 7 - ... wanting. It prefers good soils, requires a great deal of light, and therefore is found in the parang or on edges of untouched forests, or in open places of dipterocarp forests. The bark is 6 to 12 millimeters in thickness, brown to russet-brown in color, often gray where exposed to sunlight. It has a roughened appearance due to shallow vertical broken lines, and is covered with small brown corky pustules. The inner bark is dark brownish red in color. The leaves are alternate, doubly compound,...