Fruits and Pits of the Chinese Wild Peach. 

 (Amygdalus davidicma. ) 



The discovery by Frank N. Meyer that this species of 

 wild peach which produces inedible fruits has been used 

 probably for centuries in China as a stock for many stone 

 fruits has led to its extensive trial for the same purpose 

 in America. Several plantings of commercial peaches, 

 plums, apricots, and almonds budded upon this as a stock 

 have reached bearing age in California and Texas and are 

 unusually promising. Owing to the resistance to cold, 

 drought and alkali of this new stock and the ease with 

 which it can be budded, it appears probable, if supplies 

 of the seed can be raised, that it will form the root 

 system of large commercial peach plantings in California, 

 Utah and Texas. In Oregon the largest nurserymen are at- 

 tracted by the ease with which it can be worked, and in 

 Minnesota and Iowa trees of it have stood untouched by 

 the low temperatures, even -40 F., which have killed com- 

 mercial varieties to the ground. It cannot be expected to 

 fruit in any region visited by late frosts. as its buds 

 swell easily in warm, damp weather. Natural size photo- 

 graph, taken by R. L. Beagles, July 14, 1915, at Chico, 

 Calif. , Neg. No. 535. 



