HORTICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS AT SAN ANTONIO. sy 
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. 
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Pia. 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 
