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. 
