JOURNAL 
or 
The New York Botanical Garden 
Vor. XVIII December, 1917 No. 216 
THE DELICIOUS FRUITS OF ACTINIDIA 
11 f 
Herbaceous 
nee not far from the Museum Building, 
ridge, Macachatetis 
where he found a porch covered with a sarees vine of this sp 
ecies 
in full fruit. 
recent visit to W ashington, Dr. Fairchild supplied 
y 
have to be peeled. If this skin can be changed by amelioration 
or hybridization, the should prove a valuable one for the 
southern United States, 
he genus Actinidia contains over twenty species, most 0 
OURNAL for November, 1917 (18), 237-256, was issued December 18, 1917.] 
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