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22684. ZIZIPHUS JTJJUBA. Chinese jujube. From F. N. 

 Meyer, Tsiutze, Shansi, China. Becomes large tree and attains great 

 age. Old trees are very little branched, spineless, and sucker but 

 little. Fruits produced on Texan trees raised from bud wood of the 

 original importation were large, 1§ inches long and IJ inches in 

 diameter, oblong, with very fine-grained, heavy flesh. Chinese name 

 Mu shing hong tsao. 



22686. ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. Jujube. From F. N. Meyer, 

 Tsintze, Shansi, China. Trees large and spreading, forming a 

 marked contrast to the small, little-branched habit of most other 

 Chinese jujubes. Fruits smaU, oblong, reddish colored, and pos- 

 sessing a very mellow sweet flavor. Chinese name Lang tsao, or 

 ''meUow jujube." Trees resist drought and are probably quite 

 hardy. (PL XIX.) 



30488. ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. Jujube. From Dr. W. M. Hayes, 

 Chinchowfu, China. Cuttings of the largest fruited varieties of 

 jujube to be obtained in the vicinity of Chinchowfu. (PI. XX.) 



35254. ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. Jujube. From F. N. Meyer, 

 Peking, China. Trees of this variety do not grow very old and possess 

 few suckers. Fruits are either entirely seedless or else possess a 

 very soft kernel not noticeably different in taste and texture fi'om 

 the flesh. The candied fruits have a flavor intermediate between 

 raisins and candied citron rind. Chinese name Wu Jiu tsao. 



35287. ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. Wild jujube. The seeds of this 

 plant were collected by F. N. Meyer on the city wall of Peking, 

 China. A very spiny slmib or small tree, very drought resistant, 

 sometimes used in China as a stock for cultivated jujubes and should 

 be tried as a stock for these fruits here. 



36852. ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. Jujube. From F. N. Meyer, 

 Peking, China. A variety with large, round-oblong fruits of a dark 

 mahogany color. Flesh somewhat juicy and quite sweet. Trees of 

 rather small growth, very spiny. Cultivated in Peking gardens 

 under the name Ta tsao, meaning " big jujube." Spiny tree, hardy, 

 suited to cultivation in dry and irrigated regions. 



36853. ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. Jujube. From F. X. Meyer, 

 Peking, China. Trees of this variety grow to a considerable size, 

 with heavy trunks and but few spines. Is said to produce more 

 fruit when ringed annuafly, by removing a thin ring of bark from 

 the trunk. Fruits rather smaU, nearly spherical, reddish brown, 

 possessing very sweet flesh. Cultivated under the name Hsiao 

 tsao, " small jujube." 



