

AMYGDALUS DAVIDIANA. 



Chinese Wild Peach. 



A six-year old tree of the red barked, upright strain 

 of Chinese wild peach standing in the midst of a winter 

 killed orchard of ordinary peaches at Ames, Iowa. This 

 tree grown from seed of a tree now growing at Pekin 

 (S.P.I. No. 18262) began to show unusual hardiness in 1910 

 and in 1911, following an unusually dry summer- and stood 

 uninjured a January temperature of -35 F. , which killed 

 the hardiest varieties of peach, such as Hills Chihll, to 

 the ground. In Texas and southern California it has shown 

 an unusual resistance to drouth and a remarkable earliness 

 as a stock. It flowers very early and its buds are killed 

 by the frost in Iowa, so that it has not fruited there. 

 It is not an edible peach but a stock plant for stone 

 fruits. 



(Issued: May 19, 1913. ) 



