The California Chinquapin as an Ornamental 



Tree 



This beautiful specimen of the wild California chinquapin 

 grows in Mr. Burbank's grounds at Sebastopol. Its flowers have 

 been used extensively in hybridizing experiments in the course of Mr. 

 Burbank's development of the hybrid chestnuts elsewhere de- 

 scribed in this volume. But the chinquapin tree has 

 obvious merits of its own as an ornamental 

 shrub, as this picture clearly testifies. 



