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1918, from Mr. L. A. Walton, Yuba City, California: 

 "I have received some of the Amygdalus davidiana 

 (S. P. I . No. 34515) Chinese peach seedlings from the Chico 

 Plant Introduction Garden each year for the past four 

 years. I received the first shipment, about 50 trees, 

 in February, 1915, and planted them all in alkali ground 

 in different parts of my orchard where I had not been 

 successful in growing other varieties of trees. All 

 of the A. davidiana that had made a good strong growth in 

 the nursery made a wonderful growth after being trans- 

 planted. I budded these trees to the Walton Cling in 

 September, 1915. They are very thrifty, fine looking 

 trees now, much larger than any other trees of the 

 same age, that I have in my orchard, and I picked a 

 good crop of peaches from these trees last summer. 

 I have planted some of the .1. daindiana on high, sandy 

 loam with a clay subsoil and some on very fertile, 

 river- ottom soil. In each case they have made a strong 

 growth aud I believe it is the best root stock that we 

 can use for our commercial orchards. I might add that 

 all of our orchards in Sutter County are irrigated 

 from wells so the trees have plenty of moisture during 

 the summer months. If we could get the pits from this 

 seedling for some of our best nurseries I am quite 

 sure that we would have much stronger trees than we 

 are growing at the present time, and on soil that is 

 not too strong with alkali they will grow very suc- 

 cessfully. " 



