HORTICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS AT SAN ANTONIO. 



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THE LESS IMPORTANT FRUITS. 



The fruit crops already enumerated are all that the writers are now 

 prepared to recommend for planting in farm orchards or gardens. 

 Not all of them will be found suited to every farm, but it is believed 

 that some of them may be used on each farm, and in most cases all 

 of them may be used if desired. 



In addition to the lists of fruits which have been mentioned, many 

 others have been under experiment at the San Antonio Field Station. 



Fig. 6. — A tree of Diospyros lotus, an importation from China, which is a very promising stock for the 

 Japanese persimmon. These trees appear to be immune to chlorosis and resistant to root-rot. The 

 one here shown has been growing in its present location for seven seasons. Compare with figure 5. 

 (Photographed September 16, 1913.) 



Some of them have been found unsuited to local conditions, and the 

 experiments with others have not yet progressed far enough to war- 

 rant final conclusions. There is apparently widespread interest in 

 regard to the possibilities of many of these fruits, and requests for 

 information regarding them are frequent and insistent. In order to 

 meet this demand the following notes are included. It should be 



