UNIQUE QUALITY FRUITS 25 



ings. The trailers are valuable for decorative 

 purposes and quite often for their fruits. 



In Korea and Manchuria the long, slender 

 vines of Actinidia arguta (the species with 

 which my experiment began) are used for 

 cordage. 



Other species are used in the manufacture of 

 paper. 



My first introduction to the genus was through 

 a number of large plants of Actinidia polygama 

 received in 1904 from an American miner in 

 Korea. The seeds already referred to were re- 

 ceived five years later. The first fruit buds ap- 

 peared on the plants in 1912. But different 

 species vary as to the age at which fruiting 

 begins. Some species fruit in the first year from 

 the seed. 



The ones under my observation have fruited 

 too recently to enable me to do more than 

 observe their attractive qualities and form a 

 general opinion as to the possibility of im- 

 proving them. 



The vine may be grown as readily as the grape, 

 and its improved varieties promise to be a very 

 valuable addition to the list of American fruits. 

 Its full possibilities of development, however, 

 can be judged only after more extended ob- 

 servations. 



