Inventory 42, Seeds and Plants Imported. 



Plate VII. 



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Trunk of Potanin'S Peach (Amygdalus persica potanini, S. P. I. No. 40007). 



A wild peach or the typo of A. davidiana, but seldom growing so large; max in inn 30 feet, occurs 

 at altitudes of 4,000 to 7,ooo feet in side valleys, especially in well-sheltered w irm mountain 

 pockets. Its fruits are not edible, but as a slock for stone fruits it may prove mure drought 

 resistant even than davidiana. Its behavior on a hillside location is shown in the illustration. 

 I'hotographed by Frank Is'. Meyer, October 29, 1914 (P12108FS). 



