AMYGDALUS DAVIDIANA. Chinese Wild Peach. 
A six-year old tree of the red barked, upright strain 
of Chinese wild peach standing in the midst of a winter 
killed orchard of ordinary peaches at Ames, Iowa. This 
tree grown from seed of a tree now growing at Fekin 
(S.P.I. No. 18262) began to show unusual hardiness in 1910 
and in 1911, following an unusually dry summer and stood 
uninjured a January temperature of -35° P., which killed 
the hardiest varieties of peach, such as Hills Chihli, to 
the ground. In Texas and southern California it has shown 
an unusual resistance to drouth and a remarkable earliness 
as a stock. It flowers very early and its buds are killed 
by the frost in Iowa, so that it has not fruited there. 
It is not an edible peach but a stock plant for stone 
fruits . 
(Issued: JJay 19, 
1913. ) 
