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it. These offer special material for further selec- - 
tion, and by combining such selection with skilful 
hybridizing the plant experimenter should be able 
to produce ap apricot that will stand quite un- 
rivaled among the stone fruits. 
WHAT THE LoguaT OFFERS 
There is another fruit to which reference may 
be made here perhaps as well as elsewhere. This 
is the loquat, a plant classified by the botanists as 
Eriobotyra. 
There are several species sometimes classed as 
loquats, but the common Japanese loquat is the 
only one which the botanist places in the genus 
just named. It is a small, broad-leaved, woolly- 
branched evergreen, useful not only for orna- 
mental purposes, but for its fruit which ripens 
from February to June, growing from blossoms 
that usually appear in December and January. 
The wild loquat of Japan bears a small fruit 
about the size of a very large cherry or small 
plum, nearly all skin and seeds, and outwardly 
somewhat resembling a small apple or large haw- 
thorne fruit, except that it is yellowish in color 
and rusty woolly. 
But there are several improved varieties of 
fruit, due to selective cultivation. These oftenest 
bear pear-shaped fruit that is sometimes two and 
one-half inches in length and two inches in di- 
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