New Plant Introductions, 1916-17. 



Plate XIX. 

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A Large-Fruited Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba) from Shansi, China, S. P. I. No. 22686. 



Although many seedling jujube trees are growing in parts of America, the large-fruited, grafted 

 Chinese varieties like this one from 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 al- 

 though 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., Septem- 

 ber 15, 1915. (Natural size.) 



