
          New Plant Introductions, 1916-17.

Plate IX.

THE KIZILALMA APPLE OF KHOTAN (MALUS SP.), S. P. I. No. 30327.

The leaves, the fruit (outside and in), the seeds, and the wood of the young twigs of this strange
apple from Khotan, Chinese Turkestan, are tinged with red; and, although the fruit is somewhat 
insipid in flavor, it seems worthy of the attention of apple breeders, on account of its extreme
earliness, ripening in May. It has been suggested as a stock. Photographed (P19662FS) at
Chico, Cal., May 18, 1916. (Natural size.)
        