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36485. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Shalil. From Consul H. D.
Baker, Kurram Valley, Northwest Frontier Province, India. The
shalil grows like a peach, which it much resembles in fruit and blossom.
The flesh is yellow and sweet, but it is not so juicy as that
of the peach. It is said to be particularly valuable for cooking or
canning, owing to the hard flesh. Of interest to breeders.

36717. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Peach. From Mr. Alfred
Welhaven, Unsan, Chosen (Korea). Bud wood obtained near Ping-
yang. Chosen, where the best blood-red peaches are said to grow.

36724. AMYGDALUS PERSICA. Peach. From Mr. F. N.
Meyer, Kalgan, Chihli, China. Reported as a small but hardy peach,
cultivated in sheltered localities in the northern parts of Chihli
Province. To be tested in regions north of the peach belt proper.

AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Crosby nectarine.
From Rev. P. J. P. Hendriks, Kashgar, Chinese Turkestan. As
fruited in America, a juicy, good, rather thin-skinned, medium-sized
nectarine, suited to short, hot summers. Not a good keeper. Like
all nectarines, more subject to brown-rot than the peach. Careful
spraying is necessary to ripen a crop.

AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Quetta nectarine.
From Lieut. W. L. Maxwell. Seedling from the best nectarine tree
in Quetta, British Baluchistan. Spreading, vigorous tree bearing
immense quantities of large fruits, green tinged with red. Fruited
in California. Pronounced by experts to be exceptionally fine and
worthy of wide dissemination because of its large size and good
color, notwithstanding the thin skin. Budded on A. davidiana.

26503. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. A large,
freestone nectarine from E. Cotes, Simla, India. Said to have
come from Chinese Turkestan. Fruit creamy yellow, with red blush.
Flesh creamy white, red at stone. Juicy, crisp, subacid, and of very
good quality. Skin rather tough, but parts readily from the flesh.
A good shipper.

30648. AMYGDALUS PERSICA NECTARINA. Nectarine.
From Mr. F. N. Meyer, Guma, Chinese Turkestan. A small, late
nectarine with white fruits. Said to have a fresh, sweet taste and to
possess good keeping qualities.- Especially fit to be grown in arid
or semiarid regions under irrigation.
        