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1918, from Mr. L. A. Walton, Yuba City, California: 
"I have received some of the Amygdalus davidiana 
(S. P. I . No . 34515 ) Chinese peach seedl ings from the Chico 
Plant Introduction Garden each year for the past four 
years. I received the first shipment, about 50 trees, 
in February, 1915, and planted them all in alkali ground 
in different parts of my orchard where I had not been 
successful in growing other varieties of trees. All 
of the A. davidiana that had made a good strong growth in 
the nursery made a wonderful growth after being trans- 
planted. I budded these trees to the Walton Cling in 
September, 1915. They are very thrifty, fine looking 
trees now, much larger than any other trees of the 
same age, that I have in my orchard, and I picked a 
good crop of peaches from these trees last summer. 
I have planted some of the A. davidiana on high, sandy 
loam with a clay subsoil and some on very fertile, 
river-bottom soil. In each case they have made a strong 
growth and I believe it is the best root stock that we 
can use for our commercial orchards. I might add that 
all of our orchards in Sutter County are Irrigated 
from wells so the trees have plenty of moisture during 
the summer months. If we could get the pits from this 
seedling for some of our best nurseries I am quite 
sure that we would have much stronger trees than we 
are growing at the present time, and on soil that is 
not too strong with alkali they will grow very suc- 
cessfully. " 
