

Bui. 204, Bureau of Plant Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate I. 



Fig. 1 .— A Thrifty Persimmon Orchard in the Ming Tombs Valley, North of 



Peking. 

 Fruit pickers are sorting the fruit. 



Fig. 2.— A near View of Some Heavily Loaded Branches of the Tamopan 



Persimmon, a Large, Seedless, Nonastringent Variety. 



Introduction Nos. 16912, 16913, 16921, 22350, 22362, and 22365. 



