
          New Plant Introductions, 1916-17.

Plate XIX.

A Large-fruited jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) FROM SHANSI, CHINA, S. P. 1. No. 22686.

Although many seedling jujube trees are growing in parts of America, the large-fruited, grafted
Chinese varieties like this one fiom the village of Chintzu, Shansi, China, constitute a new fruit
for the hot and dry regions of the West.  The fruits may be eaten raw, like an apple, and 
although this variety is not so highly flavored as some of the others and is of a more spongy tex
ture, it is a very desirable fruit for the home. Photographed (P571FS-C) at Chico, Cal., September 
15, 1915. (Natural size.)
        