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DESCRIPTIONS OF THE SHRUBS 



fruit. The plants are generally prickly. The most hardy species is not 

 fully so north of Washington. 





- Chinese Flowering 

 Chestnut. 



Fig. 100. — Long-racemed Horse- 

 chestnut. 



Common Jujube — Zizyphus sativa — is a shrub or small tree, often 

 prickly, growing occasionally to the height of 30 feet. The leaves are so 

 arranged along slender green stems as to look like compound pinnate 



ones but the flowers and fruit in 

 their axils prove the leaves are 

 simple. These leaves are from 1 

 to 3 inches long, dark glossy-green 

 above, whitish below, oblique at 

 base and finely notched. The fruit 

 is short-stalked, dark red to black, 

 4 to f inch long. 



There is a species only 3 to 4 feet 

 high with yellow drupes, Lotos 

 Tree — Zizyphus Lbtus. This is 

 always very piickly and probably 

 not so hardy as the larger species. 

 [Seeds ; twig cuttings ; root cut- 

 FiG, 101. — Smooth-fruited Buckeye, tings.] 



