New Plant Introductions, 1916-17. PLATE IX. 



The Kizilalma Apple of Khotan (Malus sp.), S. P. h 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 some- 

 what insipid in flavor, it seems worthy of the attention of apple breed.ers, 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.) 



