THE GRAFTED JUJUBE OF CHINA 



A Deciduous Hardy Fruit Tree That Flowers so Late in the Spring That Its Blooms 



Are Never Caught by the Frost 

 David Fairchild 



Agricttltural Explorer in Charge of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction, Bureau of 

 Plant Industry, U. S. Department of Agricidture, Washington, D. C. 



THE word jujube is connected 

 in the public mind with jujube 

 paste and jujube lozenges, which 

 formerly were in vogue as a cough 

 remedy. These lozenges often had noth- 

 ing whatever to do with the jujube, be- 

 ing made of gum arable and sugar. 



The Chinese jujube is practically a 

 newly discovered fruit tree, so far as 

 American agriculture is concerned; for 

 although there are seedling jujubes in 



various public parks and door yards, 

 which doubtless are the result of early 

 introductions, through missionaries in 

 China, the importation of the large 

 fruited, grafted Chinese varieties was 

 only begun in 1906. 



While some of the early introduced 

 seeds have now grown into large sized 

 trees and borne crops of small fruits 

 which are of good flavor, these fruits 

 have been too small to attract the seri- 



JUJUBE TREE WEIGHTED DOWN WITH FRUIT 



Nearby view of a jujube tree in the test orchard at the U. vS. Plant Introduction Field Station. 

 Chico, California. The limbs and main branches of the tree are weighted down with fruit. 

 There has not been a single failure of a croj) of jujubes at the station since the trees were old 

 enough to bear fruit something over six years ago. Photograph by P. H. Dorsett, Oct. 

 1917. (Fig. 1.) 



