New Plant Introductions, 191 C-1 7. PlATE XX. 



Fruiting Branches of the Chinese Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) in California, S. P. I. 



No. 30488. 



The Chinese jujube prows rapidly and fruits early and heavily in the interior valleys of northern 

 California, where tlie temperatures rise to 120° F. in midsunimer. Unlike most other fruit trees, 

 the twigs which hear the fruits are produced as leafy shoots (resembling compound leaves) in the 

 spring and these fall off with the leaves in autunm after the fruits have dropped. A heavy- 

 bearing, grafted varietv from Chinechoufu, Shantung, China, sent in bv Eev. W. it. Havs in 

 1911. Photographed (jPo9cFS-C) at Chico, Cal., October IS, 1915. 



