ZIZIPKUS JUJUBA. JUJUBE. 
"An- orchard of a variety of jujube, called 'Hsiao 
tsao', -showing the way all trees have been ringed to make 
them produce more fruit." Prom photograph by Mr. Frank N. 
Meyer, taken near Laoling, Shantung, China, March 31, 
1913. The jujube is one of the five principal fruits of 
China and has been cultivated for at least 4000 years. 
There are hundreds of varieties, differing in shape, size 
and quality, some of the varieties producing seedless 
fruit, and others fruit the size of a hen's egg. The 
fruit is used fresh, candied, dried, or made into pre- 
serves. The seedless sort is stewed with rice much as 
raisins are used in this country. Trees of some of the 
larger fruited Chinese jujubes growing in Texas and Cali- 
fornia from plant material introduced from China by the 
Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction have borne 
fruit of good size and quality. It is believed that this 
Chinese dryland fruit tree will be adapted to a wide area 
of the United States and prove of considerable importance 
as a new cultivated tree fruit. 
