

THREE -YEAR-OLD TUNG OIL TREE AT TALLAHASSEE, FLA. 



A young tree, planted Jan. 7, 1913 as 

 seedling, in the experimental plantation of 

 Ronalds. In 1914, in its third year from seed 

 fruits, and the next year its fourth, it bore 

 Records are being kept of the yields of the 

 tung trees in this plantation to discover if some 

 not yield more regularly and heavily than others 



a one year 

 Dr. Tennent 

 it bore 17 

 107 fruits, 

 individual 

 trees do 

 If es- 



pecially productive strains are found, it will doubtless 

 be possible to top-work the grove with budwood from the 

 productive individuals and to use the latter for general 

 propagation purposes. Photographed by David Fairchild, 

 January 31, 1915, at Tallahassee, Fla. No. 15585. 



